Chart: More than one in five workers in the South are paid less than $15 per hour: Share of workers paid less than $15 per hour by region, 2019 and 2021 | Economic Policy Institute

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More than one in five workers in the South are paid less than $15 per hour: Share of workers paid less than $15 per hour by region, 2019 and 2021

	2021	2019
Northeast	11.5%	17.4%
West	9.7%	17.5%
Midwest	16.6%	22.2%
South	22.0%	26.0%

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Source: EPI analysis of CPS ORG microdata.

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