number of americans working for minimum wage
Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers, 2014. In 2014, 77.2 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.7 . percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 1.3 million earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 1.7 million