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MIT has a living wage calculator to attempt to answer this question. https://livingwage.mit.edu https://livingwage.mit.edu I would guess that $15/hr is above
by parkingrift 5y ago
MIT has a living wage calculator to attempt to answer this question.
https://livingwage.mit.edu https://livingwage.mit.edu
I would guess that $15/hr is above the "living wage" in a majority of counties in the United States. Perhaps your perspective is skewed by your experience in expensive urban areas?
- toomuchtodo 5y agoPerhaps the problem is what the definition of "living" is? There is a gap between economic serfdom and comfortable/economic physiological safety.
- parkingrift 5y agoTheir definition of "living" is fairly simple. "The tool helps individuals, communities, and employers determine a local wage rate that allows residents to meet minimum standards of living." For the purposes of this calculator that's enough income for food, housing, transportation, civic duties, and medical care. Their overall methodology is located here: https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide-Technical-Documentation-2021-12-28.pdf https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide...
- ydlr 5y agoAnd how many people are living in those counties only because they van't afford to move?
- parkingrift 5y agoHow could anyone possibly know that? You could suppose the opposite is also true, but what's the point?
- PenguinCoder 5y agoWhy are you guessing if there's readily available data? Every single state (as a whole) on that MIT page, states a living wage that is greater than the listed minimum wage, for even a _single_ person with 0 dependents. $15/hr is on par or within $2/hr to a living wage EVERYWHERE according to MITs living wage. Perhaps your perspective is skewed by thinking this is the 1990's still.
- parkingrift 5y agoI'm sorry, but what are you talking about? I didn't say anything about minimum wage.