Perry, please read my opening post. My question was about my own experience and a story I heard, and that’s why I asked if this was just an aberration, or if we have rising wages for illegals.

Second, hiring a cleaning crew just once doesn’t mean I have to pay taxes for them. I believe the rule applies if you pay someone more than a certain amount, or hire them regularly. Does everyone who hires a day laborer fill out a W-2?

Perry, rising costs don’t mean you can pass them along. Often you have to figure out how to lower your profit margins.

I still don’t have the answer to my question, which is: are illegals getting paid more now than they were last year or the year before?

Payroll surveys show that wages are flat, but how are the wages of illegal labor? Is it rising? Come one, how can a cleaning person charge as much as a technicians with a bachelors degree? What is driving that?