Many of the clerk/convenience store positions are nearing $20/hr here. They have to to stay staffed. With so much reliance on ordering online and delivery there are loads of warehouse picker jobs at that start at that or more. And most of them give nice hiring bonuses.
Same but they still can’t get people too. Covid seems to have broken the will of people to work. And being how it’s literally impossible to evict anyone these days, they’re living for free