B U D G E T B R I E F Minimum Wage Increases Boost The Earnings Of Low Wage California Workers PDF Download

Source: CBP analysis of Current Population Survey data 2 earnings of the California workers at the 10th and 20th percentiles of the earnings distribution increased, as did those of the median worker, the worker at the middle of the earnings distribution (Table 2). [...] However, the earnings of the worker at the 10th percentile of the earnings distribution rose by a larger percentage (12.6 percent) than those of the worker at the 20th percentile (9.4 percent), and the earnings of the worker at the 20th percentile increased by a larger percentage than those of the worker at the median (7.5 percent). [...] However, the earnings of the worker at the 10th percentile fell by a larger percentage (9.5 percent) than those of the worker at the 20th percentile (7.9 percent), and the earnings of the worker at the 20th percentile fell by a greater percentage than those of the worker at the median (3.6 percent). [...] Since a minimum wage hike is targeted toward the hourly earnings of workers at the bottom of the earnings distribution, a rise in the minimum wage is more likely to affect the earnings of low-wage workers than it is likely to affect the wages of the worker at the middle or high end of the earnings distribution. [...] However, the average annual increase in retail trade employment lagged the average annual increase in total employment.4 The Purchasing Power of California's Minimum Wage Has Declined Over Time While recent state and federal actions have partly reversed the erosion in the purchasing power of California's minimum wage, the inflation-adjusted value of the minimum wage remains 33.1 percent lower than.