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Among major occupational groups, service occupations had the highest percentage of hourly paid workers earning at or below the federal minimum wage, at about 7 percent.
The BLS report finds that almost three quarters of minimum wage workers are white (72.6%), 17.9% are black, and 5.1% are Asian. The report also shows the breakout of minimum wage workers by industry. The leisure and hospitality industry employs the most, encapsulating 64.4% of all minimum wage workers.
Age. Minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they made up just under half of those paid the federal minimum wage or less. Among employed teenagers (ages 16 to 19) paid by the hour, about 8 percent earned the minimum wage or less, compared with about 1 percent of workers age 25 and older. (See tables 1 and 7.)
The BLS report finds that almost three quarters of minimum wage workers are white (72.6%), 17.9% are black, and 5.1% are Asian. The report also shows the breakout of minimum wage workers by industry. The leisure and hospitality industry employs the most, encapsulating 64.4% of all minimum wage workers.
Age. Minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they made up just under half of those paid the federal minimum wage or less. Among employed teenagers (ages 16 to 19) paid by the hour, about 8 percent earned the minimum wage or less, compared with about 1 percent of workers age 25 and older. (See tables 1 and 7.)