The chart above indicates the ratio of minimum to median full-time wage in the United States and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries starting in 1960. The state-level minimum-to-median wage ratio is the ratio of the average of the state minimum wage to the state’s median wage in that year. OECD.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across OECD’s many databases. THP blog posts offer analysis of economic policy challenges and highlight solutions to promote evidence-based economic growth. This chart shows the share of workers earning equal to or less than 150 percent of the minimum wage in every state in 2012. THP charts, maps, and tables highlight economic policy challenges through dynamic interactive features. The national minimum-to-median wage ratio is the population … The 10th-percentile men’s wage grew 3.6% in states with minimum wage increases, compared with 0.7% growth in states without any minimum wage increases, while women’s 10th-percentile wages grew 2.8% in states with minimum wage increases and 1.4% in states without.4 This dataset contains annual data on minimum wages relative to median wages of full-time workers. For cross-country comparisons, data on minimum wage levels are further supplemented with another measure of minimum wages relative to average wages, that is, the ratio of minimum wages to median earnings of full-time employees. Household composition of families in the struggling lower-middle class varies substantially from the household composition of families in poverty. This chart presents the schedule for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for tax year 2014 and possible adjustments to maximize the impact. The composition of the struggling lower-middle class—defined here as working-age families with children under age eighteen whose income places them between 100 and 250 percent of the FPL—is markedly different from families in poverty in terms of marriage and presence of earners. The median wage is the median hourly wage in the Outgoing Rotation Group of the Current Population Survey of earners who work at least 35 hours per week and who are not self-employed. Powered by .Stat technology | © OECD. is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the knowledge base of OECD's analysis and data. That is, half of the workers earned below this level. Economists often consider the ratio of the minimum to the average or median wage, also known as the Kaitz index, to evaluate the level of the minimum wage. Median rather than mean earnings provide a better basis for international comparisons as it accounts for differences in earnings dispersion across countries. Economists often consider the ratio of the minimum to the average or median wage, also known as the Kaitz index, to evaluate the level of the minimum wage. THP collaborates with leading experts to produce evidence-based policy proposals that foster prosperity through broad-based, sustainable economic growth. The reason for the difference is that the distribution of workers by wage … By hovering over a state, you can also see the minimum wage in 2012 in each state. The OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics database includes a range of annual labour market statistics and indicators from 1960 broken down by sex and age as well as information about part-time and short-time workers, job tenure, hours worked, unemployment duration, trade union, employment protection legislation, minimum wages, labour market programmes for OECD countries and non-member economies.