{"id":17380,"date":"2013-05-09T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=17380"},"modified":"2013-05-09T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:12:02","slug":"idahos-average-hourly-wage-declines-median-wage-ticks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/05\/09\/idahos-average-hourly-wage-declines-median-wage-ticks-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho&#8217;s Average Hourly Wage Declines, Median Wage Ticks Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s average hourly wage declined in 2012 according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oes\/current\/oes_id.htm#00-0000\" target=\"_blank\">data released today<\/a> by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s average hourly wage for all occupations dropped from $18.52 in 2011 to $18.48 in 2012. That slide now ranks Idaho&#8217;s average hourly wage 45th among states.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that slip in average hourly wages, Idaho&#8217;s median wage went up. Half of Idaho&#8217;s hourly workers earned $14.58 last year, that&#8217;s up from $14.51 in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>As <a title=\"Bottom Rung: Living On Low Wages In Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/bottom-rung\/\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;ve been reporting all week<\/a>, Idaho&#8217;s wages are among the lowest in the country, and today&#8217;s updated figures from the BLS doesn&#8217;t change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s average hourly wage declined in 2012 according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Idaho&#8217;s average hourly wage for all occupations dropped from $18.52 in 2011 to $18.48 in 2012. That slide now ranks Idaho&#8217;s average hourly wage 45th among states. Despite that slip in average hourly wages, Idaho&#8217;s median [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[143],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}