We posted our minimum-wage job at the lab and got … 89 applications. We had to take the posting down, and now students are writing to ask where the posting went and can they still apply.
This is a result of the state-mandated increase in minimum wage. We have to pay each worker more but the total amount we get didn’t increase. Consequently, the number of jobs decreased dramatically. Students now have to fight it out over a fraction of the job pool we used to have.
I predicted exactly this when the announcement about the minimum wage increase first came out. We were cushioned from the consequences for a couple of years by COVID money but now we are left alone to eat the consequences.
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