• CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Federal government workers in the US generally have a “base salary,” which stays the same across all regions, so you can easily compare. And then they get a regional adjustment, based on where they actually live, called “locality pay.” I think this is recalculated annually based on the specific areas. It’s almost certainly more complicated than that, but I think that’s the gist.

    I agree with you, and my point is that the US government already does this! So if it’s fine for government workers, just apply that same algorithm to a federal minimum wage, peg it with some inflation index, and we’ve solved made the minimum wage issue a whole lot better, so we can focus on other issues that don’t have huge supermajorities of support.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      That’s kinda why I suggested the average rent as an index, since unless we do some Nordic style price adjustment control that limits how much prices can go up in a year or such, that will probably be the best indicator of the actual inflation that the average consumer is experiencing in any given year.