Minimum wage statistics
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. This rate applies to covered nonexempt workers. The minimum wage for employees who receive tips is $2.13 per hour.
Minimum Wage is Not Enough - Home - Drexel University
Researchers estimate that a minimum wage below $15 per hour costs U.S. taxpayers over $107.4 billion per year. A federal increase to $15 per hour would impact ...
Association of State Minimum Wage Rates and Health in Working ...
State minimum wages were obtained from the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (33), which sourced their data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
ILO Research Guides: Minimum wage: Statistics
Statistical methods · ILOSTAT - Statistics on wages · Setting the minimum wage, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2009 (pdf 269 KB) ...
The unintended effects of minimum wage increases on crime
... minimum wages are more likely to bind (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2017). Arrest data are collected for property crimes (larceny, burglary, motor vehicle ...
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics - Minnesota.gov
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) data tool shows employment and typical wages by occupation and region in Minnesota. This information can ...
Undisputed facts about the minimum wage | PBS News
3.3 million Americans worked at an hourly rate at or below the federal minimum of $7.25. This data comes from the Current Population Survey.
Minimum wages - German Federal Statistical Office
Press releases · 25 November 2022 Number of low-wage jobs down by 0.5 million in April 2022 from April 2018 · 23 February 2022 Minimum wages in the EU: between ...
Minimum Wage by State – Updates for 2024 - Paycor
Federal minimum wage is still $7.25, but more than 20 states are increasing minimum wage in 2024. · Washington state and Washington, D.C. have ...
What Percentage of Americans Make Minimum Wage? - Spendmenot
Statistics on Minimum Wage · 1. In 2021, 1.4% of hourly paid workers aged 16 or above earned the federal minimum wage or less than that. · 2. In ...
Minimum Wage | Malibu, CA - Official Website
The annual cost of living increase is based on the US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI 12-month percent change for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers ...
Minimum Wage by Country 2024 - World Population Review
The minimum wage for non-tipped workers in the United States remains $7.25 per hour in 2020—the 17th highest in the world, but barely half that of the global ...
About - National Low Income Housing Coalition
Thirty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, however, have minimum wages that are higher than the federal minimum wage. State minimum wages ...
Increasing the Minimum Wage Comes at Too High a Price for Workers
Across the United States, about half of all states raised their minimum wages in 2024. Most of those increases went into effect on January 1 ...
The Minimum Wage Is a Poverty Wage - Center for American Progress
According to the 2024 guidelines, a full-time employee earning the federal minimum wage of $15,080 per year makes just $20 more than the poverty ...
Q. Minimum wages by state over time? - PUL Quick Answers
Download the Excel or PDF file to retrieve data for all years. For additional historical minimum wage statistics, try The Book of the States.
The Effects on Employment and Family Income of Increasing the ...
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour for most workers. In this report, CBO examines how increasing the federal minimum wage to $10, ...
A Review of Evidence from the New Minimum Wage Research
statistics they report indicate that 9 percent changed either the timing or amount of the first wage increase granted to new employees, 2 percent reduced the ...
Who Are California's Low-Wage Workers? - Legislative Analyst's Office
Low-wage workers made no more than $17.50 per hour in 2023. Mid-to-high-wage workers made more than $17.50 per hour in 2023. Chart: Legislative ...
Most Americans support a $15 federal minimum wage
About six-in-ten US adults (62%) say they favor raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, including 40% who strongly back the idea.