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Minimum wage increases in many states and cities also bolstered their pay. By August 2022, lower wage earners were averaging 7% yearly pay increases compared to 4.5% for the higher earners, the ...
In all but a handful of states, employers are allowed to pay tipped workers below minimum wage — in some cases as little as $2.13 per hour — as long as they make enough in tips to earn the ...
The impact on employers and workers within the restaurant industry is a major focus of the Fight for $15 movement. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, restaurants and other food services employ about sixty percent of all workers paid at or below the minimum wage, as of 2018. [57]
In 2019, only 1.6 million Americans earned no more than the federal minimum wage—about ~1% of workers, and less than ~2% of those paid by the hour. Less than half worked full time; almost half were aged 16–25; and more than 60% worked in the leisure and hospitality industries, where many workers received tips in addition to their hourly wages.
By a vote of 382 to 37, the House of Representatives approved a revised bill that would increase the minimum wage to $3.80 per hour as of April 1990, and $4.25 per hour as of April 1, 1991. [59] The bill would allow a lower minimum wage for employees who are less than twenty years old. [59]
More than one-third of those making at or below minimum wage had attended college. Had the federal minimum wage kept up with inflation in July 2009, it would be $10.34, according to the BLS.
In 2019, only 1.6 million Americans earned no more than the federal minimum wage—about ~1% of workers, and less than ~2% of those paid by the hour. Less than half worked full time; almost half were aged 16–25; and more than 60% worked in the leisure and hospitality industries, where many workers received tips in addition to their hourly wages.
It takes 4.38 minimum wage workers to comfortably pay for a one-bedroom apartment, since it costs 131% of one worker’s salary to pay rent. Kruck20/istockphoto 2.