In the report, each state is ranked by 17 metrics in three categories: wages, worker protections and the right of workers to organize. Utah ranked 44th.
Workers at Honeyville Inc., in Ogden, in December 2021. A new study ranked Utah the 44th worst state work, but overall data suggests the state's wages are far better than that.Being a journalist in 2022 means receiving nearly incessant public relations pitches in your email inbox. In particular, P.R. teams have figured out that one surefire way to get media attention is to rank cities and states against one another, in any category possible.
First, this wasn’t put together by a lawn company — indeed, this was a report from Oxfam, named after the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. It’s a highly regarded international nonprofit fighting world poverty, lending significant reputation points to the report. Then, the underlying statistics used were also well-cited: having a bibliography in a data report is always a good sign, but having a lengthy one is even better.
Here’s the thing: I don’t think minimum wage is a very representative way of looking at the issue of worker pay.according to the Bureau of Labor StatisticsWe should care about those 13,000 people, for sure. We should actively try to improve their lives — including by boosting the minimum wage. But they make up just 1.5% of Utah’s total hourly workforce. Focusing exclusively on the minimum wage doesn’t represent the majority of actual workers in the state.
Of course. But the truth of the matter is that Utah’s wages actually look pretty good — relative to other U.S. states, anyway. Here’s a compelling graph of Utah’s income curve: How many households make how much money? The red line is Utah, the black line is the U.S. average, and the gray bands represent the spectrum of the other U.S. states.You can see Utah has more households making $45,000 and above than most other states, and fewer households making under $35,000 than most other states.
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