[farceSpherule]

If you are paying people $7.25 an hour, then perhaps you deserve to go out of business.

Line work in the conditions you describe should be paying $16 to $26 per hour, with an average of about $18 per hour.

[EasyMark]

Surely that's in a LCOL area like some small rural town, right? $18 is what teens around here get for flipping burgers and running cash registers.