https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2022/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2022/home.htm > In 2022, 78.7 million workers age 16

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2022/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2022/home.htm > In 2022, 78.7 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 55.6 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 141,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 882,000 workers had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 1.0 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 1.3 percent of all hourly paid workers, little changed from 2021. This remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979, when data were first collected on a regular basis. (See table 10.) It has gotten significantly better, but it's still easy to forget about the other 1%.