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What jobs affected by the Seatac minimum wage hike are open to automation or replacement by customer self-service?

• The airport of Seatac, near Seattle, just increased the minimum wage to $15 an hour for workers at the port and nearby hotels, car rental agencies and other services. What jobs that payed less than $15 an hour until this increase are prime for replacement by non-humans? It seems to me that airport services are already running bare-bones, with rental lots operating with a staff of three people total (who are probaby paid more than $15 an hour anyway). And hotels can't really do without room servicing. Also note that many other airports already have contractual minimums for onsite workers above minimum wage. Oakland, for instance, requires $13.45 (although this does not affect nearby offsite businesses, like the city of Seatac voter initiative required). So what are some vulnerable jobs to this change? http://washingtonstatewire.com/blog/labor-backed-initiative-at-seatac-targets-airport-hotels-would-set-highest-minimum-wage-in-country-at-15-an-hour/ See also:

• Answer:

  Replace snack shop / sundries shop with vending machines Replace currency exchange with automated machines. Stop/reduce airline reps at arrival aiding with transfers.  Have a phone to call, with outsourced customer service agents.  Ditto for information desks.  (This is already being experimented with in fast food drive throughs) In general, places where a kiosk can replace a human agent.  We see this already with check-ins, where passengers either do self-service or wait in line. Introduce automation into fast food preparation.  For example, McDonald's is already working on labor saving automation for preparing french fries. Shift some work off outside the Seatac minimum wage zone.  For example, do hotel laundry offsite.  Any work that can be shifted outside of that zone, for less than the cost of transportation, is at risk.  Food preparation, vehicle maintenance, etc. There could also be job loss by employes seeking the most productive employees.  When you account for benefits, it is better to have 1 person paid $15/hour who can clean a bathroom in 30 minutes than to have 2 people paid $9/hour who take an hour to clean a bathroom.  So higher minimum wage punishes the lower productivity employee. And don't forget that the new minimum wage now make the remaining work at the airport more attractive.  So as positions become available, via attrition or whatever, they will tend to go to the most highly qualified employees,  The general trend could be to rotate out current lower productivity employees and replace them with fewer workers and not ones from the same neighborhoods as before.  This is punishes those who needed the work the most and increases income inequality.