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About half (of 3.8M) are under 25. Not sure about "very few", it's one in twenty jobs. http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage201
by jfoutz 14y ago
About half (of 3.8M) are under 25. Not sure about "very few", it's one in twenty jobs.
http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm
- ef4 14y agoOne in twenty hourly-paid jobs. But hourly-paid jobs represent only 59.1% of all jobs. So it's actually only 3.1% of jobs that pay (Federal) minimum wage.
- jfoutz 14y agoI'd like to see your math. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 says 64 million at the end of 2011, 3.8M/64M = 5.9% No? I might have mis googled those statistics though.