This actually follows the motto, the state leaves it up to employers to figure out. I posted the stat in another thread recently, but only 1% of NH workers make minimum wage. That's why we don't set it higher than the national, there's no reason to.

Not just employers, they are only half the labor market equation.

I suppose I can see it that way.

If I am honest, I simply didn't view it that way because it is so low.

How many that make above minimum wage are still making less than the minimum wage in other states though? And I'm not trying to bait you in to anything, but saying that only 1% makes minimum wage and that's why they don't raise it could just mean that a lot of people are making a small amount above minimum wage.

I don't have that stat offhand, but the state published a lot of info here:

https://www.nhes.nh.gov/elmi/products/documents/wages-all.pdf

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If you look at the pdf I linked, average for food prep, the lowest category, was $16.21/hr in the first table. I don't know what you're going on about.

What teachers assistant has a 35.000 hourly wage?!

Walmart is offering higher that the minimum wage in DC ($15.25) and they still can't get enough workers. Ditto for Walgreens, Home Depot, etc. Go to those stores and try and get service.

Minimum wage is BS. Any employer offering minimum wage is stupid. Minimum wage in CA is $15 per. Anyone think they can make it in CA with that?

By the way, neighboring Maine's minimum wage is $12.75 and Maine also has a hard time hiring.

That’s terrible logic. Someone making $7.50 or $8 an hour isn’t making minimum wage but would still be struggling to survive working 40 hrs a week. How do you not see that as a problem?

Scroll up to the document I linked. Even the lowest job category is averaging above $15/hr.

I saw several jobs on those charts lower than $15 some between $8-10. There is entire chart of lowest wages which are all below $15, and those are averages which means people are making less than that as well.

Average of the bottom ten job categories bottoms out at $11.59 and the number of people employed at those lowest categories is practically nil. There isn't a problem for the state to solve here.

Thank god the min wage is so low.

I’d like to see what actual poverty outcomes look like. Are NHers overall worse off than Mainers or Vermonters because we have a lower minimum wage? Do citizens in states with higher minimum wages have better financial outcomes overall?

AFAIK, NH has among the lowest or the lowest poverty rates in the nation, and as another poster already commented, almost no one makes minimum wage. My McD’s down the street is offering $15+ to start. I just don’t see the need for the state to do anything about it, but I’m also not married to the idea.