I'm familiar with union-free contractors who pay more than their unionized competitors in terms of what they need to do to recruit and retain their people. I'm familiar with ones who pay the same or who pay less. It's a total job experience.
I've been doing human resources for 30 years. One of the great misnomers is that money is a fundamentally important determiner of whether someone's satisfied in their job, motivated in their job, or whether they decide to join a certain organization or stay there. A lot of people in management, a lot of people with higher incomes, are more money-focused in my experience than people who we think should be more money-focused.
Let's take people who are at minimum wage levels.