There is no worker shortage, there isn't even a 'wage shortage'. Everyone is proper desperate enough to take almost anything at this point, there are hundreds/thousands of applicants to almost every “urgently hiring” position. The catch is that almost every company is making more money from running a skeleton crew because the market is entirely speculative and the government keeps giving them loans for being short staffed. The loans will be forgiven. The backlogs are exploding, both because of all the loans and because there just isn't enough people to actually do the work. But the valuation of companies keep going up because the backlogs are exploding, which means the companies keep getting more loans.
The price of food and housing keeps going up and eventually your salary isn't going to cover it.