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  2. Living Wage Calculator

    livingwage.mit.edu

    We developed the Living Wage Calculator to help individuals, communities, employers, and others estimate the local wage rate that a full-time worker requires to cover the costs of their family’s basic needs where they live.

  3. Living Wage Calculator

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    We developed a living wage calculator to estimate the cost of living in your community or region based on typical expenses. The tool helps individuals, communities, and employers determine a local wage rate that allows residents to meet minimum standards of living.

  4. Living Wage Calculator

    livingwage.mit.edu/pages/faqs

    The Living Wage Calculators estimate of living wage includes eight typical expenses or basic needs – childcare, civic engagement, food, health care, housing, internet and mobile, transportation, and other necessities.

  5. Living Wage Calculator | DUSP

    dusp.mit.edu/projects/living-wage-calculator

    We developed a living wage calculator to estimate the cost of living in your community or region based on typical expenses. The tool helps individuals, communities, and employers determine a local wage rate that allows residents to meet minimum standards of living.

  6. MIT Living Wage Calculator: Why Higher Wages Help Everybody

    alum.mit.edu/slice/mit-living-wage-calculator-why-higher-wages-help-everybody

    The MIT Living Wage Calculator lets you figure out how much is “enough” to live in your county by comparing the living wage—based on the barebones cost of housing, food, transportation, and child and health care—against the poverty wage and the minimum wage.

  7. Building the Living Wage Calculator - MIT News

    news.mit.edu/2015/building-living-wage-calculator-amy-glasmeier-0807

    This online spreadsheet lets anyone calculate a wage required to make ends meet, adjusted for every community in the U.S. The LWC was recently updated with fresh information on a wider variety of cost of living data, making it more relevant than ever.

  8. Earning a Living Wage in the United States | DUSP

    dusp.mit.edu/news/earning-living-wage-united-states

    The Living Wage Calculator utilizes geographically-specific costs for food, childcare, health care, housing, transportation, other basic needs as well as taxes at the county, metro, and state levels to provide a what a worker must earn to meet their family's needs. The calculator adjusts these costs to account for twelve different family types.

  9. 3 Questions: Amy Glasmeier on the living wage | MIT News ...

    news.mit.edu/2015/3-questions-amy-glasmeier-living-wage-0611

    The living wage calculator includes the basic elements of a cost of living: housing, food, child care, transportation costs, miscellaneous — which includes clothing, as well as taxes. It’s designed to be a minimum living wage that someone would need to be able to pay the basic expenses of their daily lives. Q.

  10. Putting the Living Wage Calculator into action - MIT News

    news.mit.edu/2018/mit-corporations-nonprofits-putting-living-wage-calculator...

    Corporations and nonprofits apply the popular MIT online Living Wage Calculator tool, developed by Professor Amy Glasmeier, to shape policy and set wages.

  11. MIT Living Wage Calculator | On the web | Features | PND

    philanthropynewsdigest.org/features/on-the-web/mit-living-wage-calculator

    The MIT Living Wage Calculator enables anyone to estimate the cost of living in a community or region and determine the hourly wage a worker in that community needs to support him or herself and a family....