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Almost half of all Americans work in low-wage jobs
- mdorazio 7y agoKey numbers from the study [1]: 44% of U.S. workers are employed in low-wage jobs that pay median annual wages of $18,000... Most of the 53 million Americans working in low-wage jobs are adults in their prime working years, or between about 25 to 54, they noted. Their median hourly wage is $10.22 per hour. I'm trying to reconcile this with the household median income of $63,179 for the US. The only way I can make it work is if most of these workers have a spouse who makes significantly more than they do or if they are working multiple jobs (i.e. more than 40 hours per week). [1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/11/21/low-wage-work-is-more-pervasive-than-you-think-and-there-arent-enough-good-jobs-to-go-around/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/11/21/low-wag...
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- dv_dt 7y agoAccording to [2], the average household size 2.53 giving a per-capita income of ~$25k if the household number is $63k. That seems feasible if 44% of workers have $18k in wages and 56% have something potentially higher, or multiple jobs are worked as you noted. [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-households-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...