Idaho 9th in lowest wage earners
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/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.
Question: Do you — or have you ever — worked for minimum wage?
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