1 Georgia City Is Among The Worst Places To Live On Minimum Wage

People working minimum-wage jobs have a better shot of making ends meet in some cities than in others.

As it turns out, the worst place for minimum-wage workers is one Georgia city.

That’s according to move.org, a site that aims to ease the stress of relocating.

The information hub notes that the federal minimum wage rings in at $7.25, and that “isn’t a living wage for the majority of people in the U.S.” Anywhere that offers the federal rate and has high rent costs is “likely unaffordable” without having roommates or multiple jobs, move.org noted.

So, researchers got to work to find the best cities for minimum-wage workers to afford a comfortable life. They ranked the 75 biggest cities in the country, determining the number of hours it would take a minimum-wage employee to afford a one-bedroom apartment, excluding other cost of living expenses.

The move.org report says:

“The average minimum wage in these 75 cities is $10.40 per hour, but the average one-bedroom apartment rent is $1,040 per month—that means rent in most big cities requires over 60% of monthly gross minimum wage income, which doesn’t include taxes.”

So, which Georgia city is the worst for minimum-wage workers?

Atlanta.

Atlanta is the worst city in the U.S. for a single-bedroom renter living on minimum wage, move.org found.

The report shows that the median monthly gross rent comes in at $1,283 and hourly minimum wage is the federal rate, $7.25.

“You’d have to work over 177 hours in a month to live in a single-bedroom apartment in Georgia’s capital,” move.org reads.

These are the Top 10 worst cities:

1. Atlanta, GA
2. Plano, TX
3. Austin, TX
4. Charlotte, NC
5. Nashville, TN
6. Irvine, CA
7. Raleigh, NC
8. Dallas, TX
9. Durham, NC
10. Orlando, FL

See the full dataset here.