Report: More than 200K Minnesota Hourly Workers Make $9 an hour or Less

A new report shows that 216,000 hourly workers in Minnesota make $9 an hour or less. 

The 2015 Minnesota Minimum-Wage Report was released Thursday by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. 

The report states that there 1.58 million hourly workers in the state.  Of those workers, 13.6 percent make $9 an hour or less.

According to the report,  45 percent of the state’s minimum-wage workers are older than 24.  59 percent above age 20 have some college education, while 11 percent above age 20 do not even hold a high school diploma. 

The report found that women are more likely than men to be paid minimum wage.  

Minnesota’s minimum wage was bumped up to $9 an hour in August of 2015 for employers with annual revenues of at least $500,000, and $7.25 an hour for employers with less than $500,000 in annual business.