No, you have it backwards. When you pay more, you get better candidates and can be more selective. But when you continue to cut the pay for a job - which this country has - your pool of quality candidates shrinks. Quality candidates are going to line up for your job an the hope that somehow the pay will magically increase.
People are just fine when a school bus driver gets paid peanuts while driving their kids to and from school. And then they're somehow shocked that that person isn't qualified or has undocumented issues and something bad happens.
I'm very glad to hear that. It's a shame how these two vitals jobs are overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated
More than they're getting.