numberwang on 07 July 2017
About 2.6% work at min wage or below (there are exceptions for jobs with tipping like bar-keeping)
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, last year ... total of 3.3 million hourly workers at or below the federal minimum. That group represents ... 2.6% of all wage and salary workers. In 1979 the represented 7.9% of all wage and salary workers.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-minimum-wage/
