The average full-time minimum wage worker can't afford rent in ANY state in America.
Full-time workers who make minimum wage can’t afford a one-bedroom rental home in any state in the U.S. without spending more than the” report compares minimum wages and housing costs in states, metropolitan areas and counties across the country. This year’s results show the hourly wage rate needed for a “modest” two-bedroom rental in 2022 is more than double the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour in every single state.
Nationally, a person would need to make $25.82 per hour to pay for a modest two bedroom rental home without spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing. For a modest one-bedroom rental, it’s $21.25. Even where local minimum wages are higher than the federal standard, it’s not enough. “No local minimum wages are sufficient to afford a one-bedroom rental home at the fair market rent with a 40-hour workweek,” the group states. 2022 data from the National Low Income Housing Coalition shows the hourly wage required to afford the rent on a two-bedroom home in each U.S. state and Puerto Rico.
Of the 50 states, Arkansas has the lowest hourly income needed for a two-bedroom rental at $14.89, the report shows, but the state minimum wage is $11. Hawaii demands the highest income from renters. Workers need to make $40.63 to afford a two-bedroom in the Aloha State where the minimum wage is increasing to $12 on Oct. 1.
Even accounting for areas that have higher-than-federal minimum wages, the average American would need to log 96-hour workweeks for 52 weeks per year to afford a two-bedroom apartment or rental home, according to the report, which notes that’s equivalent to about two-and-a-half full-time jobs. For the overwhelming majority, not even sharing a dual income with a federal minimum wage-earning partner would cover a two-bedroom rental in their state.
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