Comment on Most minimum wage studies have found little or no job loss (2024)

iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With this, it really depends on if you’re looking at each state’s minimum wage or just the federal minimum. Like, 0% of people in California work for federal minimum wage, because the state’s minimum wage is higher. It still isn’t a livable wage in the state, though.

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, more people make state or local minimum wage, but we don’t have numbers for that. But still, if you raise SF minimum wage a few dollars, it affects few people because the median is $96k (half of SF residents make more than this)

    It’s not surprising raising minimum wage doesn’t cause job losses because increasing it by a lot hadn’t been tried

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    • Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait… we don’t have wage data by state?

      What a world we live in…

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Each city can set its own. SF minimum wage is $19.18, while California’s is $16.90

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