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Originally Posted by ckcarr
Depends on the local economy.
My company can't get and keep employees for $15 an hour these days.
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Yeah, I guess so.
Reading some of these posts, the heartland seems like a different country. And it is, in a lot of ways. Paying people people $5 an hour to dig a ditch is really fk'ed up, that was the wage in about 1976. It shows how little economic opportunity there must be there.
As others have said, the going rate for getting anyone to get off the couch around here is $15-20 an hour. I paid people $15 cash as extra labor 10 years ago. Anyone not worth $15 an hour, I don't want around me or some job I'm doing.
I also never hire random strangers for anything, ever. When I was doing high-end painting and refinishing, I worked in houses where there was a painting on the wall that was worth more than the house. And the house was worth several million.
The key to success in business is to have the best people working for you. You have to pay them well and expect a lot. Even if they are painting closets, you don't want some jerk-off on your site. I'm about to possibly enter into a new enterprise and we are going to pay someone really well to leave a job where they do not feel adequately compensated to come work for us. We want the best.