Starvation Wages

Chartwell employs thousands of people, whether directly, or indirectly through its clients. An arrangement such as this, where a staffing company like Chartwell advertises for jobs, screens and interviews applicants, and further manages a client's staffing, including payroll, is referred to as co-employment. While perusing Chartwell's website I decided to take a look at what types of positions the company fills on behalf of its clients. As a rule, most of the positions are for general labor, mostly unskilled, like warehouse work, and for relatively meager pay. The screenshot below shows a relatively typical position for which Chartwell fills on behalf of their clients.

The open position, in  is for an order picker and packer which pays $14 an hour. An hourly wage of $14 an hour at full-time, averages a salary near $29,000 a year. After doing some research here, I found that this is far below the $75000 in wages you'd need to live comfortably in Nevada, where the position is open. Its unclear how much money Chartwell makes on each open position from its clients. What is clear, however, is that Chartwell pays its employee starvation wages. You would expect executives like Kidan and Lilley to live modestly and humbly given the financial situation Chartwell is in with its creditors, as well as the fact that most of its employees earn wages that will keep them below the poverty line. You would be mistaken, however, to assume this.