Family budgets in New York, by region and family type (2018$)
Note: *Assumes fast-food workers average 27.9 hours of work per week, 52 weeks per year. See footnote 4 for further details. Dollars inflated from 2014 dollar values to 2018 using Congressional Budget Office projections for growth in the Consumer Price Index.
Source: EPI Family Budget data from forthcoming update to Family Budget Calculator. Average weekly work hours in fast food from February 2015 Current Employment Statistics for New York Leisure and Hospitality Sector, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.