"Low Wage Workers in Mountain West States, 2024" by Cason Noll, Krish Sharma et al.
 

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

4-21-2025

Publication Title

Economic Development & Workforce Fact Sheet No. 73

Publisher

The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West

First page number:

1

Last page number:

2

Abstract

This fact sheet presents 2024 data on low wage workers in the five Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The 2024 Oxfam America report, “The Crisis of Low Wages: Who earns less than $17 an hour in the U.S. in 2024?,” contains data on wage earners across all 50 states, the District of Columbia (D.C.), and Puerto Rico. This fact sheet focuses on the number and percentage of workers earning under $17 per hour in Mountain West states, as well as disparities in low-wage earnings by gender and race across the region.

Keywords

Income inequality; Gender pay gap; Racial pay gap; Low wages; Minimum wage; Workers; Nevada; Mountain West

Disciplines

Economic Policy | Economics | Income Distribution | Public Policy | Race and Ethnicity

File Format

pdf

File Size

126 KB

Language

English

Publisher Citation

Noll, C., Sharma, K., Faris, M., Mitchell, S., Saladino, C.J., Brown, W.E. (2025). Low Wage Workers in Mountain West States, 2024. The Data Hub at The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West. Economic Development & Workforce Fact Sheet No. 73, 1-2.


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