MOST other wages are based upon the minimum wage, either in maintaining the "gap' or as a % of the minimum wage being what that "other" wage IS. And the result will be that ALL wages go up and then we can't compete on the world market. People who can't make a decent wage need to either learn more, start their own biz, or just perish in and of their own void.
Well of course.
When I worked at McDonalds, the only employees in the entire store, were the part-time employees. Part-time has less value, and produces less value, than full time. So they get the absolute lowest wage.
To encourage more full time employees (which produces more wealth for the store), they pay a higher wage.
Then to have people stay on for longer than 3 months at a time, those who have been there longer got still a higher wage.
Then you have shift managers. Assistant managers. Managers. Assistant store managers. And last store manager.
Then in addition to each of those levels, you have shift bonus. Hard to get people to work 12 AM to 8 AM without paying them more.
Every single time you read those absolutely brain damaged reports, that suggest:
"Raising the minimum wage will only increase cost to the consumer, by 59¢ a burger!"
All of those reports total trash, if not outright left-wing lies. Pure lying.
Because, they just calculate all the people below the minimum wage, being raised to the minimum wage.
But that logic, would have a part-time new-hire, earning the same wage as the Assistant Store Manager. That's about a rational as sky diving with boat anchors tied to both feet.
Of course those in higher level positions, must be paid a higher wage, or else no one would do those jobs.
So the cost increase travels all the way up the chain, and even across industries. I work 25 minutes away from my home. That's some fuel cost, right? If the minimum wage was $15/hr, and I could earn that at the quick mart 3 blocks from my house, why would I travel all that way, to get paid the same, while spending hundreds of dollars a month in fuel?
So now my job has to increase it's wages, well above the new $15 minimum wage, in order to keep employees.
The minimum wage has massive cascading effects. That's why it drives up the cost of everything. Not just the burger at the fast-food joint.