TABLE 3—

Projecting the Effects of a $15-per-Hour Minimum Wage on the Poverty Status and Incomes of Health Care Workers and Their Dependents: Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, United States, 2017

	Current Baseline		$15/h Minimum Wage, Assuming No Disemployment Effects		$15/h Minimum Wage, Assuming 9.4% Reduction in Hours for All Persons Earning < $19/h
	No.	% of Workers or Their Children (95% CI)	No.	% of Workers or Their Children (95% CI)	No.	% of Workers or Their Children (95% CI)
All health care workers with household incomes < 100% of federal poverty line	807 285	4.3 (4.1, 4.6)	409 079	2.2 (2.0, 2.4)	591 809	3.2 (3.0, 3.4)
Female health care workers with household incomes < 100% of poverty	702 429	5.0 (4.7, 5.2)	348 951	2.5 (2.2, 2.7)	511 722	3.6 (3.3, 3.9)
Black, Latina, Native American, and “other” female health care workers with household incomes < 100% of federal poverty line	490 681	8.8 (8.2, 9.5)	239 890	4.3 (3.9, 4.8)	332 620	6.0 (5.4, 6.5)
Children of all health care workers with household incomes < 100% of federal poverty line	1 155 745	7.0 (6.5, 7.6)	654 529	4.0 (3.6, 4.4)	992 273	6.1 (5.5, 6.6)
Average annual income bonus for all health care workers currently earning < $15/h, $	NA			7 653 (7 523, 7 782)		5 103 (4 982, 5 223)
Average annual income bonus for female health care workers currently earning < $15/h, $	NA			7 682 (7 542, 7 821)		5 152 (5 019, 5 284)
Average annual income bonus for Black, Latina, Native American, and “other” female health care workers currently earning < $15/h, $	NA			8 326 (8 118, 8 533)		5 769 (5 575, 5 963)

Note. CI = confidence interval; NA = not applicable. All values are weighted populations (%) or values calculated based on weighted populations. The 95% CIs were calculated by using balanced repeated replication with replicate weights provided by the Current Population Survey.