John Gear - Ideally, we index the federal minimum wage to a specified benchmark average of urban/rural wages and it automatically resets every January. Many states use an index with annual reset (such as Oregon).
Oregon
divides the state into three min wage groups by counties: The three
Portland metro area counties have the top wage; other urban counties
(upper Willamette Valley mainly) have a medium, and the dominant rural
counties have the lowest. But they all ratchet upward with each annual
reset.
It might be possible for the feds to do something similar.
But
in the absence of an automatically indexed minimum wage, we need to tie
the entire federal (GS) salary structure, including President/VP,
Courts, and all Senators and Representatives and cabinet agencies to
multiples of the federal minimum wage.
No cost-of-living raise at the bottom (minimum wage), then no raises for federates ...
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