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Originally Posted by nfotiu

https://datacommons.org/place/geoId/...5Onwards&hl=en

This says Mississippi’s median wage is $24k/year or more like 461/week. And about 11-12/hour. A $15 min wage is a few dollars higher than the median wage.

I was using BLS average weekly wage which is total income / total hours worked. This was not the correct value to use. The median income is not correct either. The study on the linked article refered to median wage. So you would need the median income / average hours worked and then take 60% of that.

BLS averages

https://www.bls.gov/regions/southeas...ississippi.htm