Increasing the Maryland minimum wage to $15 in 2023 advances gender and racial justice: Share of workers in each demographic group who would get a direct or indirect pay rase under the Fair Wage Act of 2023
| Group | Share of workers affected |
|---|---|
| Men | 6.1% |
| Women | 8.5% |
| White | 5.5% |
| Black | 10.0% |
| Hispanic | 10.9% |
| AAPI | 4.6% |
Notes: AAPI stands for Asian American and Pacific Islander. Race/ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive (i.e., white non-Hispanic, Black non-Hispanic, AAPI non-Hispanic, and Hispanic any race). Directly affected workers will see their wages rise to the new minimum wage; indirectly affected workers have wages just above the new minimum (up to 115% of the new minimum) and will receive a raise as employer pay scales are adjusted upward.
Source: Economic Policy Institute Wage Simulation Model; see Technical Methodology by Cooper, Mokhiber, and Zipperer (2019).
This chart appears in:
- Increasing the Maryland minimum wage to $15 in 2023 would boost incomes for low-wage workers and advance gender and racial justice: Testimony in support of the Fair Wage Act of 2023 (HB 549) before the Maryland House of Delegates Economic Matters Committee
- Increasing the Maryland minimum wage to $15 in 2023 would boost incomes for low-wage workers and advance gender and racial justice: Testimony in support of the Fair Wage Act of 2023 (SB 555) before the Maryland Senate Finance and Budget and Taxation Committees
Previous chart: « Black unemployment is consistently higher than unemployment of any other racial or ethnic group: Annual unemployment rate by race and ethnicity, 1979–2021