/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>13421888
If hes the only employee, and the material used in making those sandwiches is dirt cheap he should definitely negotiate for a higher salary, maybe even double what he makes now. Theres more than enough space leftover there to fund business expansion, CEO pay, and shareholder pay.
However if the reality is that a team of 5 workers each getting paid $10 an hour made fifty $5 sandwiches in one hour altogether, only sold twenty of those sandwiches, and had to throw out the rest, theres not much room to argue for wage increases. Half the revenue is going to wages already. There still needs to be enough room to keep a competent CEO and management team on board, fund corporate expansion, fund dividends if investor relations is a lifeblood of the company, and pay the tax man.
In such a situation, workers should literally make a preemptive bargaining agreement with management regarding a locked future pay increase relative to overall profit increases for the company, and then shill their asses off so that they can ensure they sell all fifty sandwiches within an hour.
Claim your stake on an ungrown pie and then grow the pie.