this chart is only for folks making under twenty bucks an hour. Doing what you said wouldn't make sense. That'd be a whole other chart, and it wouldn't show what this one's trying to show.

Shouldn't this take into account cost of living though? I assume cost of living in Mississippi is way cheaper than a place like California. Perhaps ppp is useful

bitcoingecko

Miss and LS have always been the bottom of the barrel in income levels historically, but that's crazy to see a third of Texas and Florida with their numbers in that category. 

winteryeti

Low-wage work remains widespread across the United States. Even as the labor market continues to expand, wage gains have been uneven, leaving millions of workers earning less than $20 per hour, which is roughly $41,600 annually before taxes for full-time work.

This infographic ranks U.S. states by the share of low-wage workers earning less than $20 per hour, using data from the Economic Policy Institute as of July 2025.

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charts_and_numbers

> Low-wage work remains widespread across the United States. Even as the labor market continues to expand, wage gains have been uneven, leaving millions of workers earning less than $20 per hour, which is roughly $41,600 annually before taxes for full-time work.
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> This infographic ranks U.S. states by the share of low-wage workers earning less than $20 per hour, using data from the Economic Policy Institute as of July 2025.
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/121502)
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> **[🔗 visualcapitalist.com](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-u-s-states-with-the-most-low-wage-workers/)**

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