Earnings

A living wage that provides full-time workers with the financial means to meet basic needs based on their local cost of living. This includes all compensation for work performed, including hourly wage or annual salary, commission, tips, bonus or profit share.

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Living wage policy

This job quality intervention outlines how workforce and economic development agencies can compensate for a lack of federal action by creating living wage policies to mandate or incentivize wages that are high enough to allow workers to meet their basic needs.

Wage subsidies

This job quality intervention outlines how workforce, economic development, and human services agencies can advance living wages through the hundreds of millions of dollars in federal wage subsidies they provide to employers each year.

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