With employees making a $15 hourly wage, there’s less staff turnover and retraining needed.
That’s according to Canalside Inn owner Kristen Deptula, who currently pays five workers what some want to see as Delaware’s minimum wage by 2025. Also, the Rehoboth Beach business owner believes higher-paid employees are more likely to spend money. If Senate Bill 15 with Senate Amendment 1 becomes law, the hourly minimum wage would increase from $9.25 to $10.50 on Jan. 1, 2022, followed by yearly increases to $11.75, $13.25 and $15 from 2023-25.
- People say $15 is a livable wage. But when $15 becomes the minimum wage, then it will no longer, if it is now, be a livable wage. Inflation will cause everything to increase in price, and people will lose jobs, but they already know that. Let’s just give everyone $1 million. Then, everyone will be rich and live happily ever after. — Bob Hice
- Why not let the marketplace dictate what it needs to pay to get the quality of help they want, instead of government intervention? — David Szelestei
- That is what we are seeing now, with the large number of historically low-paying jobs remaining open. Instead of employers raising wages to entice applicants, the governors are cutting unemployment or insisting those receiving unemployment must begin looking for a job, leaving those impacted to either starve or take a job that pays minimum wage. I’m not sure if, when offered a job, those on unemployment can refuse based on the pay offered or if they have to accept regardless of how much they would earn. — Jennifer Benson Handlin
- So don’t you start off at minimum wage and work harder and do better to earn more money? That’s how it’s supposed to be, not paid top dollar to start off. — David Szelestei
