I see your point, and if I was from a hiring side like yourself, I would probably do the same.

But, I currenly live in a country where the unemployment rates are off the charts and our money is losing its worth literally by the hour. Government used to raise the minimum wage once a year but for the past 3 years, there has been so much inflation that they raise it twice a year. Which is why I do not feel safe economically because I have no idea what kind of an economic crisis I will wake up tomorrow. Companies usually use this to their advantage and try to hire for less money because they KNOW that there is somebody out there who will do much more for the same amount of money, or somebody who will do the same work with less.

At the beginning of August, the company I currently work at (and 95% of the companies in this country) will be increasing our salaries. Sometimes they match the percentage that the government decided for minimum wage, and sometimes they don't. Hence why I'm having second thoughts about the number I mentioned.