How many low-wage workers are in the US?
million workers are paid less than $ per hour
Low-Wage Workforce Tracker, Economic Policy Institute, March 2023, https://economic.github.io/low_wage_workforce.
Notes: Analysis by Ben Zipperer of the Economic Policy Institute Current Population Survey extracts, January 2022 through December 2022. Wages include overtime, tips, and commissions. Download the data shown in the figure above or the code that produces it.