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To all of you who say that paying a higher wage would massively hurt a company, this just isn't true. Studies done by MIT and the <a href="http://www.cura.umn.edu/reporter/04-Summ/Markusen-et-al.pdf">University of Minnesota</a> have shown that raising the pay of workers (not too high though) results in an increase of productivity. This in turn lowers the total cost of employing people. Take Costco and Wal-Mart for instance. Both are very succesful, though Wal-Mart is obviously bigger. One of the common things Wal-Mart does is to higher many workers part-time so that they can avoid paying any benefits to them. Costcos on the other hand pays their employees very well, on average $15 an hour compared to $6 or so for Wal-Mart. Most of their employees are full-time and also recieve full benefits. The prices at each store are still comparable. When one pays a low wage the company tends to have a higher turnover as well. This results in higher training costs and administrative costs.
I am personally sick of making $7 an hour for risking my career every day and would like to get paid a decent wage for flight instructing.
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