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Federal minimum wage over time

I am certain I am not the first to click to this page hoping for a simple graph -- or better yet, table -- showing the Federal Minimum Wage in the U.S.A. over time.

Instead we see the usual Wikipedia blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah with no such graph or table in sight and no place to click to see one.

Thanks for your prompt attention to this oversight.  :-) Jamesdowallen ( talk) 11:15, 3 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Hi, the graph you're looking for can be found under the Historical trend heading. Roll 3d6 ( talk) 23:47, 9 April 2022 (UTC) reply

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of US states by minimum wage

See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of US states by minimum wage. Please comment there after reading my post below.

Rather than trying to delete the list article I believe this overly long TL;DR article would be better served by moving the remaining tables to the list article.

Then both articles would be a reasonable size. Then there would be less problems like the one presented in the previous talk section just above: #Federal minimum wage over time where the original poster gave up looking for what he wanted.

An actual federal table could be created instead of just a graph. Because there would be more room to do so in the list article. List article name could be changed to something like:

  • List of US federal, state, district, and territorial minimum wages

-- Timeshifter ( talk) 03:28, 7 July 2022 (UTC) reply

Discussion can happen here too of course. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 01:59, 8 July 2022 (UTC) reply

List article was kept, and not deleted. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 00:32, 21 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Consolidated table

Moved to List of US states by minimum wage. It's overkill here, but useful there. I originally added it here Nov 20, 2021. See diff.

I added more info there. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 01:17, 21 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Adequacy assessment of minimum wages

The recent proposed European Union directive on minimum wages ( procedure 2020/0310) emphasizes adequacy assessments of minimum wages, explicitly requiring one of a basket of goods and services at real prices, or set it at 60% of the gross median wage and 50% of the gross average wage. Are those adequacy assessment measurements available here? I believe it would be useful to have equivalent statistical measurements between US and EU member states. int21h ( talk · contribs · email) 06:06, 18 September 2022 (UTC) reply