Is the Market really that bad?

Wow I still get emails from time to time for Doc review (I did it while awaiting bar results 13 years ago)and I curiously glanced through the post as I have a few mentees taking the bar and I saw $23 hour for a Licened Attorney? When I did it 13 years ago I remember being paid $30-$32 hr unlicensed. Is the economy that bad? Minimum wage in some jurisdictions is $20 hr. Some German Grocery chains start at $25 hr not college and education and doc review work has dropped what they pay? I am baffled as I graduated during a recession and thought things were bad then. Anyways my ADHD brain has nothing better to do then avoid a task and rant on the internet about things that hopefully will never apply to me.