get_minimum_wage {epidata} | R Documentation |
Minimum wage
Description
Return tthe hourly minimum wage set by federal law. The real minimum wage is the federal hourly minimum wage adjusted for inflation.
Usage
get_minimum_wage()
Details
Wages are in 2016 dollars, excluding the nominal federal minimum wage. Share of average wages based on the average wages of production and nonsupervisory workers. For state minimum wages, see EPI’s minimum wage tracker.
Population sample: Production and nonsupervisory workers (average wages)
Value
tbl_df
with data filtered by the selected criteria.
data frame
Note
Data source: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division | CES
References
Economic Policy Institute Data Library
Examples
if (not_dos()) get_minimum_wage()
[Package epidata version 0.4.0 Index]