Scioto County has the lowest cost-of-living for an adult in Ohio, but a minimum wage worker would have to work full time for a year and eight months to pay for a year’s worth of expenses, according to a new report.
A single adult in Scioto County working full-time in a minimum wage job would need to be making $18.66 an hour to cover costs, according to a new minimum wage report by Policy Matters Ohio. Ohio’s minimum wage is $11 an hour.
“We’re already looking at minimum wage workers not being able to make ends meet on the current wage, and wages really need to be raised in order for us to make sure that all Ohioans have the same or improved standard of living,” said Heather Smith, one of the report’s authors…