get_minimum_wage {epidata}

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()