The ruling on the profit of an institution owner from cleaning workers paid lower wages

The questioner:
It is now time for the questions. Perhaps we will present those related to the topic. We ask permission from some of the brothers to present this question first. Yes. One of the brothers says: I am the owner of an institution that employs cleaning workers for several government facilities at a salary of approximately six hundred or seven hundred riyals. Since I take on many contracts with a higher profit, is this lawful or forbidden? Please inform us, may Allah reward you with good. My heart tells me, is it forbidden? And why do these workers receive a simple wage while the profit is large? May Allah reward you with good. The owner of an institution says: I employ cleaning workers for several government facilities at a salary estimated at six hundred or seven hundred riyals. Since I take on large contracts with a higher profit, is this lawful or forbidden? My heart tells me, is it forbidden? And why do these workers receive a simple wage while I benefit from a large profit? This is my opinion.

The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our master Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions. When a person commits to certain things, takes charge of them, and strives to fulfill what is required of them, this has its status and value. Then he employs others to relieve him of the burden and to fulfill the need he committed to. If he commits to this facility, for example, this department or this institution, to protect it or to oversee such and such matters for a known wage, such and such amount each month, and then he seeks someone to perform this same work, giving him less than what he was given, there is no harm; because he is committed to this matter, responsible for it, and a guarantor for it. So he works hard for them and seeks these workers who perform this required task for less than that, so that he may benefit in return for his commitment, his effort, and his other works that he does to fulfill the task he committed to. Like contractors: the contractor who takes on a large contract to renovate this house or this mosque for one million, two million, less or more, then employs workers, bringing in workers, this one for such and such and that one for such and such, hoping to benefit ten thousand or twenty thousand or the like because of his commitment and this great responsibility, which is compensated by the excess and surplus of the value of this contract after the workers' wages and the necessities he buys, and so on. Yes.

The questioner:
I mean, he thinks he is perhaps oppressing the workers a little.

The Shaykh:
I.

The questioner:
It is less than what I said was his profit.

The Shaykh:
There is nothing wrong with it.

Another questioner:
Even if he gave them less than their right.

The Shaykh:
He did not oppress them. If he hired them, he did not oppress them. He hired them with their consent.