So you are arguing that there's nobody who produces a value of $1 - $105 per week?
I would expect the correlation between wages and production to be much stronger at the low-income levels and for hourly positions. Regardless, it's what the employer thinks the employee is worth (or will be worth). If the employer doesn't expect at least $106+X dollars of productivity, they won't hire at $106.
This is pretty basic microeconomics; supply and demand. Even if you're right that the first employee nets more than $106, that might not be true for the tenth one. The demand curve for employees is downward-sloping, right?
I'd expect the correlation to be significantly less strong at the lower end of the market, particularly in a service-based economy like the US; worker productivity has a pretty minimal impact on number of burgers flipped per hour. They're minimum wage jobs because virtually anyone can do them, but unfortunately for people in low wage brackets there isn't an infinitude of unskilled employment opportunities to go around. It's pretty basic microeconomics that labour markets don't clear.
Sure, intuitively you'd expect some very marginal employment opportunities to disappear, but the empirical evidence shows that companies prefer other options; raising prices, cutting profits or non-labour costs, increasing worker productivity where possible adjusting opening hours etc. so the effect on net unemployment is often minimal or non-existent.
I would expect the correlation between wages and production to be much stronger at the low-income levels and for hourly positions. Regardless, it's what the employer thinks the employee is worth (or will be worth). If the employer doesn't expect at least $106+X dollars of productivity, they won't hire at $106.
This is pretty basic microeconomics; supply and demand. Even if you're right that the first employee nets more than $106, that might not be true for the tenth one. The demand curve for employees is downward-sloping, right?