Wed, Nov 25 2009
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Minimum wage increases today By Cathy SpauldingPhoenix Staff Writer David Vanderford, owner of Cowboy’s Bar-B-Q, said small businesses like his are “getting hit from the right and left” with wage increases and cost increases.
“We’ll have to offset the cost increase with our customers,” he said. Ron Venters, manager of the Workforce Oklahoma Tahlequah office, said he does not expect the minimum wage increase to have much of an impact on jobs. “And that’s what’s sad,” he said. “It is still below the poverty line.” Venters said any successful business will pay far higher than minimum wage to attract quality employees. He agreed that such wages are impacted by the market. “Oklahoma has a very low number of people who are unemployed,” he said. Venters said most people working minimum wages in Tahlequah are teenagers. “College kids don’t touch it,” he said. 
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