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Using two or more adjectives doesn’t imply conflation.
The sentence “You can have a regular apple or a big green apple” doesn’t imply that green apples are big, or that big apples are green. It also doesn’t imply that big green apples are irregular outside of this local phrasing context.
It just implies that the set of ‘regular apples’ being referenced does not include the instance of ‘a big green apple’
I can see where the confusion is coming from, this is tricky to explain clearly.
So basically if your job had no tips, it would require a higher salary than minimum wage to retain workers.