Gains for low-paid workers have not been shared equally according to McWages study by academics
is not exactly filled with creative flair. For a start, two-sided grills mean that there is no flipping involved. Staff then use squirt guns to dispense the right amount of sauce on to a bun toasted for just the right number of seconds.
That year, average pay for entry-level “crew members” was a little over $13 an hour, compared with around $34 among all private-sector employees.Analysis: Kamala Harris press performances prompt more questions than answersOver the past decade or so, average wages for the low-paid have done relatively well, as shown by David Autor of MIT and Arindrajit Dube and Annie McGrew of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
If Washingtonians earn higher McWages than Mississippians, it is probably because of where they live, not because they are particularly proficient at squirting sauce. As well as gathering wages, the academics collect local Big Mac prices, as a blunt proxy for local living costs. Overall, inequality between places rose a lot from 2016 to 2021, and only fell back a little over the next couple of years.
Their results also suggest that, before the pandemic, minimum wages grew fastest in places where McWages were rising anyway.
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