Opinion: I own a small business — this is what a $15 minimum wage means for me

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OPINION: The economics of a $15 federal minimum wage simply don’t work for small businesses like mine, Joseph Semprevivo writes.

After President Biden required federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage and Rhode Island inched closer to its own mandate, small-business owners held their breath. Congress is again likely to consider hiking the federal minimum wage, now $7.25, affecting the public and private sectors alike.

While most Americans support the move, most Americans also don’t understand how small businesses work. It is, after all, the small-business owner who will bear the cost of a $15 federal minimum wage, not the Biden administration. In annual terms, a $20 all-in hourly minimum wage comes out to nearly $42,000 per year. Doesn’t sound quite as manageable, right?

On both the employer and employee ends of the spectrum, it is a lose-lose for everyone involved. If the position is passed on to other team members, those employees may become overburdened. If it is automated, a job is lost. Then you have the customer, who may end up paying higher prices for the same level of service.

 

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Ohh.. boo hoo. Let me call you a WAHM-bulance.. WAHH!! WAHHH!! Poor rich people get to be less rich!

Minimum wages. Minimum corporate taxes. It is time to demand minimum business profits.

Its a ridiculous argument. Federal govt. role is welfare of state. The word “minimum wage” is used for a purpose. If you have to make money at the cost of a decent living for your employees, find a different business.

don't care

The government needs to do more to supplement wages to take some of the burden off of small business owners, but if you say your business can only survive off of the exploitation of workers it’s not that good a look.

Weird, and pay people more than poverty wage to sustain your system? That’s so hard for you, will you be ok?

this is terrible news

If you can’t afford to pay your employees a livable wage then you can’t afford to do business

For a publication that closely follows and writes about Wall Street, this article comes across as COMPLETELY TONE DEAF! This is a great way to radicalize people into believing a living wage is the problem. This is sad, especially when grants for small businesses exist.

Then he doesn’t have a viable business model. It’s as simple as that. If you can’t provide a living wage to your employees then your business is being subsidied by government programs and subsidies those employees need.

Perhaps its time to close

This response will seem very ignorant. Maybe, it is. I am all for a pay increase. However, what happened in the US economy that made a simple job at McDonald's that was more for teens in high school to be dominated by career-aged adults?

Then you can’t afford to be in business if you can’t pay people a living wage...so simple pay LivingWage jobseekers SmallBusiness

Can’t afford the costs of business then your business closes. Looking at labor like a fixed cost is dumb anyway.

The entire argument is flawed. He literally provides the solution: “automate” or simply pay more. The solution is NEVER suppress people.

'I need a phone slave and no one will volunteer.'

Sounds like the unemployment rate won’t come down if no-one takes the low income job openings.

No small businesses have failed under $15+/hr for 40hr 52wks/year. Anything less r simply slave wages, JosephSemprevi1

Literally a cheese burger and fries will be 25.00 in couple years at the few places that will still be open after this!

Lol must be a business of bums

Then close your business. People are not obligated to work 'struggle jobs' to support your dreams. Nation full of slaves.

Possible solution would be to exempt small businesses from needing to pay $15, and force Fortune 1000 companies to pay it.

So, hiring hiring someone to free your agents to make more sales pitches and sales is a problem at 15 but not at 8? Your margin may decrease but revenue will increase offsetting your imagined loss.

If a $15 an hour person to answer phones breaks your real estate small business than I hate to break it to you but your business prob has bigger issues

Then change your business. You can’t be in developed nation and expect third world wages, then vote GoP for demonising immigrants who work for lower wages for you.

You guys $8 2x4s just don’t work for my business. I’m only paying $3 for them thanks.

If Joseph Semprevivo cannot afford it, then he should not be in business. We are here to help the majority of people. Not a few people who want to exploit the majority.

Anyone who needs minimum wage increases to do better in life is garbage.

They should all invest in AMC. Problems solved if they just hold.

i.e. I need to exploit labor to own my own business.

BS.

That’s why you go and get a job that pays better than staying in a dead end job. If you want to be something then you need to make a move to better you and your future.

Inflation will wipe out this minimum wage.

I don't give a fuck, introduce the minimum wage.

As a worker I spend a lot of my time at work so if I'm putting in work to help the business owner keep thier house and property while I'm getting chump change I'll find another place to go and make more money......... Either way prices go down or pay goes up........

Its clear Joseph isnt cut out to be a smallbusinessowner if he can't pay a LivingWage he should own and work for himself till he can afford to pay employees properly.

Then go out of business!

We don't need your business! Get a job!

Then it's not a viable business.

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