Does getting paid $15 an hour sound good? How about getting paid that much for flipping a burger? Indeed, the government is discussing the possibility. Increasing minimum wage. It has become an increasingly controversial topic in recent years. Minimum wage is the lowest legal hourly wage a worker can get paid. Be that as it may, waiters are paid significantly less because the government believes that their tips will make up the difference. However, most of the time tips do not make up the difference. Minimum wage is paid to people whose jobs require little or no skill. In other words, these are jobs that anyone can do. Incidentally, people of all ages work minimum wage jobs. Typically minimum wage jobs are found in the food service sector, …show more content…
It is said the businesses will have to reduce hours or staff size to comply with the minimum wage increase (Englander).This means managers would have to cut costs on the labor section to maintain their budget. This would be an obvious consequence of the proposed increase that can be deduced with basic economics knowledge. Despite this people still would like to increase it. Raising minimum wage to even $10.10 would cause the loss of 500,000 jobs (Puzder).So even this miniscule increase will result in the loss of half a million jobs. That being said, why should there ever be an increase to minimum wage if direct result would be massive job loss. According to Mr. Bronars” The Wage of minimum wage increases appears to have led to the loss of over 1100 food service jobs in the Seattle metro division and 2500 restaurant jobs in the San Francisco metro division ( Puzder). This quote states that Seattle has gone through an increase to minimum wage. As a result, they have lost jobs where minimum wage affects it. Mr. Bronar is simply confirming that fact that minimum wage increases would lead to a major loss of jobs. It can be concluded with all of this evidence that any increase to the minimum wage will lead to the depletion of low-skilled