That is assuming there are wages to begin with.
What is set up on that day also continues until the 7th trump sounds, 1260 after the prophecies of the 4th seal begin to unfold. Some 2.2B people will die in the 3 1/2 years that follow the sound of the 5th trump.

Re:6:8:
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:
and his name that sat on him was Death,
and Hell followed with him.
And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,
to kill with sword,
and with hunger,
and with death,
and with the beasts of the earth.