How Minimum Is The Minimum Wage?

Yesterday nosotros looked at Esri's Predominant Income Range past times Households map, which shows how much coin people are earning inwards each census tract inwards the United States. Esri has too released a storey map this calendar week which looks at the history of The Ever-Changing Minimum Wage.

The outset federally mandated minimum wage was introduced inwards America inwards 1938. It meant that all employees had to hold out paid at to the lowest degree 25 cents an hour. The federal minimum wage is straight off $7.25 an hr exactly it hasn't been raised since 2009. You tin sentiment the electrical current minimum wage inwards each terra firma on Esri's map.

The Esri map includes an animation showing how the minimum wage has fallen or risen inwards existent terms inwards each terra firma over the end 48 years. This map illustrates how inflation has outstripped whatever rises inwards the minimum wage. In fact inwards 2018 the highest-paid minimum wage worker (who would operate inwards the District of Columbia) volition earn less than the highest-paid minimum wage worker (in Alaska) inwards 1970.

Esri's Ever-Changing Minimum Wage includes a map showing the Living Wage inwards each state. This is the existent wage that a worker demand to earn inwards a terra firma inwards guild to alive there. Regardless of the local minimum wage, all states neglect to guarantee minimum reward that truly jibe upward to the terms of living inwards the state.

Some cities, counties as well as states conduct maintain taken it upon themselves to heighten reward locally. There is straight off a growing split upward betwixt states that conduct maintain increased minimum reward as well as are at to the lowest degree bringing minimum reward closer to the terms of living, versus those states that are slower to heighten minimum reward (or don’t heighten reward at all).