In 2016, 64 per
cent of minimum wage workers across Canada were not teenagers, up from 52 per cent in 2006.
Not exact matches
In Ontario, the proportion
of minimum wage workers who are not teenagers has risen from 45 per
cent to 61 per
cent in a decade.
Now
workers in Shake Shack's New York City locations have a starting hourly
wage of $ 12.50, which is 50
cents more than the city's fast food
minimum wage of $ 12.
Two - thirds
of the
minimum wage workers, who are earning an average across this country
of five dollars and fifty
cents an hour (they're in this hotel today, and you'll pass them in the hall over and over again), are single mothers with three children.
Minimum -
wage workers at Erie Community College — most
of them students — will get a raise
of 50
cents per hour beginning tomorrow and an additional $ 1 per hour raise beginning Dec. 1.
For
workers in the rest
of the state, in Upstate New York, the
minimum wage would increase to $ 9.70 at the end
of 2016, then another 70
cents each year after until reaching $ 12.50 on 12/31/2020.
About 10 per
cent of Ontario
workers are currently making
minimum wage, but about 30 per
cent are making less than $ 15 an hour — the majority
of them women.