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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Up In Smoke" data-source="post: 5518385" data-attributes="member: 79702"><p>As a small business owner, I can attest that wages have grown significantly.  Powell has repeated over and over that wages will be the stickiest part of inflation.  We have had to become creative when hiring and evaluating for raises.  We've started offering paid birthdays, lunches, volunteer hours and gym memberships to avoid higher wages.  You can take away a bonus (turkeys), but you can't take away pay and expect employees to stay.  Employers last resort is pay, and since 2021, finding, keeping and affording employees is a huge task.</p></blockquote><p></p>