The 10 best cities for minimum-wage workers (via CNBCMakeIt)
A slew of recent legislation at the state and municipal levels has pushed the minimum wage in some places far above the $7.25 standard set by the federal government.
div > div.group > p:first-child"> More than half of all U.S. states require employers pay their staff hourly wages greater than $7.25 and in some cities, like San Francisco and New York, the minimum wage hit $15. That's more than double the federal rate, which has not been increased since 2009. These legislative efforts are meant to ease the financial burden on lower-income workers, whose salaries have stagnated, despite inflation and cost-of-living increases. Pew Research Center found that these workers have lost almost 10% of their purchasing power in the last decade.CNBC Make It collected data on the minimum wage in the 75 largest U.S.
Every city that made the top of the list paid workers at minimum $11 an hour. But in not one of the 75 cities CNBC Make It examined did the minimum wage, even if set at $15 an hour, allow a person to earn enough money to afford a modest, yet adequate standard of living while working a typical 40-hour full-time work week. In every city, overtime would be necessary to meet the total monthly costs EPI estimates a worker incurs.
Below are the 10 cities that are easiest to live in for minimum-wage earners, as well as how many hours of work would be required to afford typical monthly expenses in those places, and, while the following cities may be among the best in the U.S. for minimum-wage workers, they still fall short of providing a truly livable income.
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