NYC wages

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 19 09:05:46 PDT 2000


A few more bits of info on NYC wages, courtesy of Heather Boushey:

In 1988/89, the median hourly wage in NYC was $14.31 (in 1999 dollars); in 1998/99, it was $12.25, a real decline of over 14%.

The share of workers earning less than $10.73/hr in 1988/89 (again in 1999$): 30%.

In 1998/99: 42%.

Doug



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