Sounds like your company runs a pretty marginal business. A worker that is making $10/hr ($20K / year ) now makes $15 / hr or $30K /year doesn't add the $10+K i

Sounds like your company runs a pretty marginal business. A worker that is making $10/hr ($20K / year ) now makes $15 / hr or $30K /year doesn't add the $10+K in extra value. When I hear about companies that are not "adding jobs because of minimum wage", I go back later and look in the news reports. Invariably: 1. the company was doing badly already and use the minimum wage, tax increases, etc. to excuse their internal business difficulties. 2. the companies competitors are some how immune to the minimum wage increase and those competitors are expanding and hiring, 3. OR the company in question quietly really did hire more people because surprise, surprise, higher pay resulted in more discretionary income to spend and business was up.