Yesterday nosotros looked at Esri's Predominant Income Range yesteryear Households map, which shows how much coin people are earning inwards each census tract inwards the United States. Esri has too released a floor map this calendar week which looks at the history of The Ever-Changing Minimum Wage.
The starting fourth dimension federally mandated minimum wage was introduced inwards America inwards 1938. It meant that all employees had to live on paid at to the lowest degree 25 cents an hour. The federal minimum wage is at i time $7.25 an hr merely it hasn't been raised since 2009. You tin persuasion the electrical flow minimum wage inwards each solid position down on Esri's map.
The Esri map includes an animation showing how the minimum wage has fallen or risen inwards existent damage inwards each solid position down 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 solid position down inwards club to alive there. Regardless of the local minimum wage, all states neglect to guarantee minimum reward that truly agree upward to the toll of living inwards the state.
Some cities, counties too states get got taken it upon themselves to heighten reward locally. There is at i time a growing split upward betwixt states that get got increased minimum reward too are at to the lowest degree bringing minimum reward closer to the toll of living, versus those states that are slower to heighten minimum reward (or don’t heighten reward at all).
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