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Originally Posted by willravel
We are the closest in our industry to paying our base level employees a living wage (they get $20/hr, and our best competition can barely do $12/hr). That also helps us coax a lot of experienced sales people over from other companies. I would feel badly about it, except I know the other company can afford to pay them better but they just don't.
Let me ask you this: are you more likely to do good work where you're not happy or where you are happy?.
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So are you advocating a minimum wage of $20/hr? I'm a bit confused because this is a thread debating minimum wage. If you aren't advocating a $20/hr minimum wage, are you advocating a minimum wage at all? It looks from your position that you are in favor of workers getting paid a livable wage, which you state is $20/hr. If the minimum wage was increase to $12/hr and companies paid that, they'd still not be paying a "livable wage." Would the employees then be happy and more likely to do good work when they are getting paid the least amount allowed by law?