Well, the mod's author says that the part that decreases salaries is incompatible with Awesome and I had to take their word for it, since I don't have Sims installed at the moment. The mod is Minimum Wage over at MTS if it's of interest. At the moment making my own is beyond my abilities, but I might give it a try in the end. I do like the thought of sims drudging along on minimum wage it would go well with increasing the difficulty to get promoted with Awesome.

I would really like an option to increase/decrease salaries in Awesomemod. There is a mod which decreases the salaries, and that is XML-tunable, but it is incompatible with Awesome. Is this a feature that would be possible to incorporate?