Hourly pay rewards presence, salary rewards availability, and paying by the job rewards speed. Owners writing rules to correct behavior are usually correcting their own incentive.
The wage is the smallest number in the calculation and the only one most owners run. The rest of it decides whether the hire works or quietly drains the year.
The order matters considerably more than the effort, and two of the steps take under a minute each. Almost all of the eventual cost is set before lunchtime.