The actual dollar amount of the wage isn't the same as real income in terms of what goods and services you can buy relative to the wage, so sentences like this

The actual dollar amount of the wage isn't the same as real income in terms of what goods and services you can buy relative to the wage, so sentences like this are useless: "would make mostly immigrants here in agriculture, housekeeping, and catering among the world's highest paid unskilled workforce." It's actually likely that the higher minimum wage will lower real incomes by driving up production costs.