Ray From Cleveland
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You can't hire anyone for an unreasonable wage. If they have a better offer, they will take it. If they take it, you valued them more than anyone else, so that is a reasonable wage.
The minimum wage is a hurdle, not a tide. Not worth that? You don't work
People always debate who is worth what. The bottom line is that you are only worth what your employer could pay somebody else to do your job and quality of work. That's all any employee is worth.
In the early 80's my company wanted me to go to electronics school since I was repairing medical equipment, so I did. But working 6 to 7 days a week, going to school at night and not coming home until 9:00 pm got old real quick. So one evening I asked my instructor what I would be able to make to get my FCC license which was one year. He told me 16K. Shocked, I asked what I could make getting my associates degree which took two years. He told me 18K. So I quit the school.
It's not that electronics was easy. In fact it's pretty difficult because it's all math. The reason it didn't pay anything was because everybody and their mother wanted to learn electronics. If you graduated, you were a dime a dozen, and employers knew that.