A dollar here is not a dollar there; a $15 minimum wage would be a $19.77 wage in Australia purely through currency exchange. Even then, the purchasing power pa

A dollar here is not a dollar there; a $15 minimum wage would be a $19.77 wage in Australia purely through currency exchange. Even then, the purchasing power parity would not be the same - goods generally tend to cost more in Australia for a variety of factors. As well, the population of Australia is over an order of magnitude smaller than that of the US over a similar geographic landmass. Perhaps making a direct comparison wasn't what you intended to do, however?