Data on Persons Earning the Prevailing Federal Minimum Wage.(Statistical Data Included)

From: Employment and Earnings | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

This issue of Employment and Earnings introduces two tables that contain annual data on wage and salary workers pa d hourly rates who earn the prevailing Federal minimum wage ($5.15 per hour in 1999) or less. Annual average data for 1999 are presented in tables 44 and 45 (pp. 223-224). Table 44 shows data by major demographic characteristics and full- or part-time status. Table 45 contains data by occupation and industry.

Information on hourly-paid workers with earnings at or below the prevailing Federal minimum wage is obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The ...

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