Dover Township
It’s highly likely everyone has seen an ad or a massive billboard touting impressive starting salaries. One billboard I recently saw while driving on Route 30 was for work at a local York County manufacturing plant with pay of $35 an hour.
It wasn’t the stroke of the governor’s pen that drove up these wages. Rather, it was the free market.
In fact, the free market has done more to get people off minimum wage pay than any government-sanctioned minimum wage increase could ever do. The number of people making minimum wage dropped 14.2%, down to less than 64,000 Pennsylvanians in 2021. More than half of workers still making minimum wage are just starting out in the workforce and are ages 16 to 24, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
Contrary to Gov. Tom Wolf’s social media posts and ad nauseam talking points, the majority of workers (75%) making minimum wage don’t have young children. In fact, most workers (51%) who make near minimum wage are part of households that have an income of at least $60,000 a year, while 15% are in households that make at least $75,000 a year. Additionally, 19% of workers making minimum wage or below are part of households with a yearly income of $100,000, while 11% have a household yearly income of $150,000 or more, department data shows.
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