The hospital I use to work in had not discussing your pay in writing many years ago.
This place is still the only thriving business within 50 miles in any direction and very political.
Employees are too afraid to lose their jobs to say anything. Especially about the 3% raise cap they installed before I left.
A decade later not discussing pay is no longer in writing but it is something you learn there very quickly.
They have 300+ full time employees with okay benefits., meaning insurance with impossible deductibles just like every other business these days.
I don't see how this will ever change and it has a lot of multi-generational employees going back decades with all support staff up to nurse's aids still barely making it.
Off my own topic but relevant to these bad salaries:
I have no idea how anyone pays rent, let alone has any savings or hopes of owning anything brand new.
I don't blame someone on a low budget to have a good gaming system because it is really one of the cheapest forms of entertainment in the long run.
I brought that up because it seems to be one of the biggest criticisms of low income folks on a tight budget.