Reply To: Gives loads of tzedaka, small raises to needy employees

Wages are determined by the law of supply and demand. If you deliberately overpay, that is a common form of tsadakkah, though the government gets annoyed when a frum business puts someone on the payroll for a “make work” job at a good wage (halachically, that is probably the best way to give tsadakkah since the recipient feels they are self-supporting, but it doesn’t mesh well with the internal revenue code).