Nationwide, wages are in the dumps. Which, honestly, is something you could’ve figured out by chatting with your local Starbucks barista. But a new report showing the majority of big corporations aren't paying a $15 minimum wage is just icing on the cake.
On Tuesday, the Economic Policy Institute and Harvard’s Shift Project released a collaborative effort dubbed the Company Wage Tracker. It looks at 66 large retail and food corporations to show not only the hourly wages of workers within the United States, but also how much revenue they generate in the U.S. and what each corporation pays its CEOs.
