Employers say they can't find enough employees because of expanded unemployment benefits.
Lawmakers may be debating the merits of a $15 per hour minimum wage, but most hourly workers are interested in making much more.
Hourly workers on job discovery platform DirectlyApply searched for jobs with an average salary of $19.43, about 30% higher than the proposed higher minimum wage and 168% more than the current $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage, according to a survey of 2,794 hourly workers in America.
Hourly workers in California had the highest average searched-for salary at $22.41, while Mississippi had the lowest searched-for salary, at $14.74 per hour.
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