Thought I'd share my experience, a year or so ago I was a manager at a small Chain liquor store in the south.
We were struggling to find people to work for us because it was a new store and not many people knew about us, so the few interviews we did get were important to me- I remember asking the owner and his son what money we were offering for new hires when that question came up- they refused to tell me.
When I pressed further their only response was “Money is not important, don't worry about it.”
Naturally nobody was interested in working there- I left shortly thereafter for a different reason, the owner screaming at an employee in the middle of the store over nothing. Quit on the spot.