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We deserve jobs that pay enough to afford the basics for ourselves and our families. Raising the minimum wage would provide a much-needed boost to households facing rising inflation and housing costs.

North Carolina’s minimum wage has been stuck at the federal minimum—$7.25 an hour—for 16 years. Thirty other states have raised their wage above the federal minimum wage, including Florida, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Dakota, and Missouri.
According to the 2022 Living Income Standard—a market-based assessment of what it takes to make ends meet in NC—an average family with two adults and two children needs to earn at least $69,270 per year ($16.75/hour/working parent) to afford the basics.
A full-time minimum-wage worker earns roughly $15,080 per year at the current minimum wage; that’s about a third of the cost of living for a single person with no children in North Carolina, according to the MIT Living Wage calculator.
An increase to $15 per hour would result in a wage increase for 1.3 million North Carolinians, and increase total wages paid in our state by nearly $4 billion in one year.

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