Low-Wage Labor Market
Commenters debate why employers easily fill low-paying jobs despite high turnover, citing abundant desperate workers, limited alternatives, and market dynamics that keep wages low.
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"It's harder to find people to do that work every single year"Translation: The wages we pay are crap and we're not going to pay them more.
They don't have to pay well, people working that kind of job don't have a whole lot of options. One leaves 10 more want to take their place. Employers are having a very easy time of it.
who else would work for the low wages?
that's most likely because the people who work those jobs are usually struggling to make ends meet and desperately need every penny they can get. if their needs were met, i'm certain that would change.
The latter. They are apparently able to find people to work for them at these wages.
Probably because they are willing to work for a lot less compensation!
Nobody wants to work for low rates if there is an alternative.
They provide valuable jobs, otherwise employees wouldn't agree to it
people with shitty jobs will be willing to do less-shitty jobs that pay less.
if there was only one place for these folks to work, they wouldn't be commanding very significant salaries.