The correct answer should probably be something like equity. If you kept equity in mind then you could create a way to see how much they should receive because equity would insure everyone lived fairly well and had enough to live. Of course, some workers might want even more but that would be up to them, not up to the employer.
A. The Boll Weevil Plague, they are beetles that were carried in from Mexico and it remained the most destructive cotton pest in North America for much of the Twentieth Century