Question: what is the average minimum wage in the us 2018?
Answer: Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2018. In 2018, 81.9 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.5 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 434,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.