How many people in the U.S. earn the minimum wage?

Question

Citations, please! :)

Answer 1

I found this on the U.S. Department of Labor website. It seems that out of 73.9 million American workers that are paid by the hour (not salary), about 2 million earn minimum wage or less ($5.15/hour or less).

"According to Current Population Survey estimates for 2004, some 73.9 million American workers were paid at hourly rates, representing 59.8 percent of all wage and salary workers.1 Of those paid by the hour, 520,000 were reported as earning exactly $5.15, the prevailing Federal minimum wage, and another 1.5 million were reported earning wages below the minimum.2 Together, these 2.0 million workers with wages at or below the minimum made up 2.7 percent of all hourly-paid workers."

Answer 2

are you talking federal min wage because no one in ct earns that our min wage is 7.10 an hour. thats a part time student working in burger king earning 7300.00 dollars a year. but i bet they earn at least 9. home depot starts at ten but you must be 18.

Answer 3

i do i am a student with a part-time job