{"id":7265,"date":"2012-05-10T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2012-05-10T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T21:55:52","slug":"five-percent-of-idahos-workforce-earned-minimum-wage-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/10\/five-percent-of-idahos-workforce-earned-minimum-wage-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Percent Of Idaho’s Workforce Earned Minimum Wage In 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Idaho Department of Labor’s latest monthly newsletter<\/a> describes how the state’s proportion of minimum wage jobs has shifted over the course of the recession<\/a>.\u00a0 A greater share of Idaho’s workforce is earning minimum wage now than in 2007, the height of the economic boom.<\/p>\n

Nearly 19,000 Idaho workers earned minimum wage last year, that’s down from 30,000 in 2010.<\/p>\n

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Idaho Department of Labor<\/p>

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“Estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that about 12,000 of Idaho\u2019s 424,000 hourly workers \u2013 2.8 percent \u2013 were making the minimum wage of $5.85 an hour in 2007 during the peak of the state\u2019s economic expansion.<\/p>\n

By 2010, the number making the new minimum wage of $7.25 an hour had risen to 30,000 while the total number of hourly workers in Idaho had dropped to 396,000.<\/p>\n

The number of workers earning the minimum wage dropped significantly in 2011 to 19,000, but that was still over 5 percent of the state\u2019s hourly workforce.” – Bob Fick, Idaho Dept. of Labor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Idaho Labor Department reports the state’s median wage was $14.54 per hour in 2010. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Idaho Department of Labor’s latest monthly newsletter describes how the state’s proportion of minimum wage jobs has shifted over the course of the recession.\u00a0 A greater share of Idaho’s workforce is earning minimum wage now than in 2007, the height of the economic boom. Nearly 19,000 Idaho workers earned minimum wage last year, that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":7267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[103,74,133,143],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265"}],"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=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}