New The Living Wage Map
January 16, 2019
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Esri's Living Wage Map shows the gap betwixt the minimum wage as well as the actual existent toll of living inwards every county as well as major metropolitan expanse inwards the United States. The map uses MIT’s Living Wage Calculator to gauge betwixt each area's minimum wage as well as the existent toll of living inwards that area.
You tin role the map to compare the minimum wage to the living wage for 3 dissimilar types of family; a brace alongside ii children, a unmarried nurture alongside 1 kid as well as a unmarried adult. Once yous pick out a household trouble solid unit of measurement type yous tin stance a choropleth map showing the departure betwixt the minimum as well as living wage across the United States.
The darker the color on the choropleth layer therefore the higher the gap betwixt the area's minimum wage as well as the living wage. If yous select a county on the map yous tin stance the minimum wage inwards that county, the living wage inwards the county as well as the departure betwixt the two.