Idaho, which not long ago ranked first in the nation for the percentage of its workers earning minimum wage or less, ranked 9^th in 2015, the same ranking it held in 2014. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 15,000 of Idaho’s 458,000 hourly wage workers earned exactly $7.25 an hour in 2015, while another 6,000 earned less; that puts Idaho at 4.6 percent earning minimum wage or lower, compared to a national average of 3.3 percent. Among those low-wage Idaho workers, 13,000, or 62 percent, were women.

In 2013, Idaho ranked second in the nation for its percentage of minimum-wage workers, behind only Tennessee; in 2012, Idaho was No. 1, with 7.7 percent earning minimum wage or less. Back in 2003, just 3 percent of Idaho’s workers earned the minimum wage or less.

In the 2015 report, which is online here, Louisiana had the highest percentage of low-wage workers, at 6.4 percent. The lowest was Oregon, at 0.7 percent.