The unlimited PTO thread made me think of this. With many businesses and public sector jobs having to raise the starting wage to get employees, how has that affected everyone who already made more than the starting wage? Did everyone get a raise? Was it an across the board raise, or was it based on something else? In my husbands business he raised the starting pay (dishwasher) from 11 to 14/hr, (idk what it is currently) so the cooks and others who had been there and were already making say 15/hr (just throwing out numbers for an example) all got a $3/raise to keep things even. Where I work (state job) they raised the minimum up to $15/hr and there were a TON of support staff (the jobs that don't require degrees -those are not my words, just how its described here)that made well under that. Like dietary people here, most made 11 or 12 an hr depending on if they were a aide 1 or 2. Most clerical staff made 12-14 an hr. So everyone got raised to 15, but those who were above the previous minimum ($11) did not get the same amount of a raise. So if you made $11 before you got a $4/hr raise. But if you made $14 before you got $1.30. So where there used to be $1-2 (or more) between 2 positions is now less than .50. It's caused a huge problem because who wants to take on a bunch of additional work and responsibility and have to supervise others for an extra $12 a week. Then as you move up the chain in job titles, the gap gets even smaller. 2 positions that used to have a 4500-5K a year difference between the 2 now have a $1200/ year difference. So I'm curious how other types of businesses handled it.