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An hourly worker or hourly employee is an employee paid an hourly wage for their services, as opposed to a fixed salary. Hourly workers may often be found in service and manufacturing occupations, but are common across a variety of fields. Hourly employment is often associated but not synonymous with at-will employment.
Wages adjusted for inflation in the US from 1964 to 2004 Unemployment compared to wages. Wage data (e.g. median wages) for different occupations in the US can be found from the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, [5] broken down into subgroups (e.g. marketing managers, financial managers, etc.) [6] by state, [7] metropolitan areas, [8] and gender.
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]
“For me, minimum wage is what you can hire an employee for,” Rose, who owns Tiburon Fine Dining, a contemporary American restaurant in Sandy told CNN. “$7.25 hasn’t been relevant for years.”
Although the federal minimum wage hasn’t budged, many state minimum wages have. That’s why only 1.1% of hourly workers earned the prevailing federal minimum wage or less in 2023, down from 1.3 ...
According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 55.8% of jobs in the U.S. paid by the hour in 2021. That’s a higher than one out of two chance that your job pays by the hour.
In the third quarter of 2021, women earned 86% of what men earned in median hourly wages, compared to 85% two years earlier. The overall pay gap reflects that employed women tend to have higher educational attainment than employed men. In 2021, 48% of employed women aged 25 and older had at least a bachelor’s degree, compared to 40% of men.
A well-known factoid in American economic debates is that wages used to grow with productivity, but they don't anymore. There's a particularly famous chart, courtesy of the Economic Policy ...