{"id":3856,"date":"2014-06-27T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2014-06-27T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T12:00:51","slug":"ikea-to-raise-minimum-wage-for-u-s-workers-with-tie-to-living-wage-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/06\/ikea-to-raise-minimum-wage-for-u-s-workers-with-tie-to-living-wage-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikea To Raise Minimum Wage For U.S. Workers With Tie To Living Wage Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ikea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3858\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ikea-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"ikea\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ikea-300x152.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ikea-150x76.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ikea-400x203.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ikea.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish furniture giant Ikea is raising the minimum wage in all of its U.S. stores, and it&#8217;s doing so in a way that may raise the bar for American retailers.<\/p>\n<p>The famous seller of ready-to-assemble home goods will base the wage floor for each of its stores on the MIT Living Wage Calculator, which estimates what salary a worker would need in order to get by in a particular geographic area.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ikea, the move will boost the average store minimum wage to $10.76, a 17 percent increase, and bring raises to approximately half of the company&#8217;s 13,650 U.S. employees. The new rates will go into effect on Jan. 1, according to Rob Olson, chief financial officer and acting president of Ikea U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all centered around the Ikea vision, which is to create a better everyday life for the many people,&#8221; Olson told The Huffington Post. &#8220;The many people is, of course, our customers and consumers, but it&#8217;s also our co-workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/06\/25\/ikea-minimum-wage_n_5531040.html\">Ikea To Raise Minimum Wage For U.S. Workers With Tie To<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/06\/25\/ikea-minimum-wage_n_5531040.html\">Living Wage Calculator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish furniture giant Ikea is raising the minimum wage in all of its U.S. stores, and it&#8217;s doing so in a way that may raise the bar for American retailers. The famous seller of ready-to-assemble home goods will base the wage floor for each of its stores on the MIT Living Wage Calculator, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1736,1738,1663,1737,1311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}