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Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC)
(midwest.social)
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/29825277
By popular demand, one last map to examine the absurdity of the American economy.
If you saw my map from yesterday that was up most of the day, please see the corrected version below. I done goofed hard on copying a column of state names. The original post has been corrected, but I will also post my previous two maps on this post for easy comparison.
Edit: the red map, for anyone unaware, is based on current individual state minimum wages and not the current federal minimum wage
I would like to see a graph of the percentage of people earning minimum wage in every state. It seems like minimum wage is no longer a thing.
Either way, the average American worker who is salaried even earns less than $35/hr.
Countries with similar or slightly lower wage parity with us tend to work 30 hour weeks, have more vacation time, have universal healthcare, childcare, etc. in lieu of paying people such high wages. So they can still survive. In the US we have no supports like that reducing costs, and we also dont get paid well enough to make up for that