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RCtheWSBC posted...

wolfy42 posted...

According to fortune it's 42.4% of all workers, and 48.6% of female workers btw.

So yeah, not just teens and college students.

In 2016, 79.9 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.7 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 701,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 1.5 million had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 2.2 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 2.7 percent of all hourly paid workers.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2016/home.htm

And nowhere in the history of minimum wage laws in the US dictate them covering teens and students only: https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/coverage.htm

I said minimum wage in the area, and the actual statistics are for those making under $15 an hour I believe (42.8% of americans make under $15 an hour which was proposed as the new minimum wage).

Teachers for instance can fall into that category if they make $25k or less per year (although technically they don't work for almost 3 months between summer/vacations, so that would probably bump them over).

In some places where the min wage recently increased, this has actually boosted the number of people making within a dollar of min wage drastically. I live in olympia WA where it jumped up to $11 all at once (2$ an hour) and now tons of "skilled" positions like home health aids, CPAs etc all are making within a $1 of min wage (Even when you need to be licensed, have schooling/training etc for the positions).

Point is, min wage or close is paid for many skilled or semi-skilled positions right now, and certainly not jobs you would want a teenager to have.
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