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Small businesses have changed how they compensate employees over the past 40 years. That’s not surprising given all the changes in the economy and society that have occurred since the mid-1980s.
I have written about many of these shifts before:
While big companies have always paid more than small businesses, the wage gap between large and small companies has been rising in recent years.
Sole proprietors are increasingly replacing employees with contract workers, following the pattern set by larger businesses.
Benefits, like the cost of employee health insurance, are comprising a larger portion of small business labor costs than they did 30 years ago.