Fourteen of the nation’s 20 most common occupations pay median wages that are less than what a full-time worker needs to afford a modest one-bedroom rental home at the national average fair market rent (Figure 3). That’s according to a just released study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
The study also shows that 64 million people, or 42% of the entire workforce, work in these 14 occupations.
For example, the national median hourly wage for the “vital work” performed by home health aides, personal care aides, nursing assistants, orderlies, and psychiatric aides is $17.02 – almost 10 dollars less than the full-time wage of $26.74 needed to afford a one-bedroom rental home at the fair market rent.
That number for Gainesville is $24.42.
Click here to read the full report: Out of Reach | National Low Income Housing Coalition (nlihc.org)