Minimum Wage

Study Finds If Walmart Paid its Workers a Living Wage, It Would Cost Consumers $0.46 Per Visit More
Study Finds If Walmart Paid its Workers a Living Wage, It Would Cost Consumers $0.46 Per Visit More
Walmart employs 1.4 million U.S. workers.  A study has recently found that if Walmart paid each of those empoloyees  a living wage of at least $12 per hour, instead of the average $8-$9, and they passed every single penny of the costs onto consumers, the average Walmart customer would pay just 46 cents more per shopping trip, or around $12 extra dollars each year...
Montana’s Minimum Wage Climbs To $7.35
Montana’s Minimum Wage Climbs To $7.35
If there seems to be a little bit more change in your pocket, it might be because Montana’s minimum wage climbed to $7.35 an hour on January first. That’s an increase of ten cents, which translates to $32 per month for the average worker.