Hourly wages needed to afford a two-bedroom apartment in the U.S. 2022, by state
average minimum wage in place in many states. There was no state in which a minimum wage worker could afford rent for the average two-bedroom apartment, if they only worked 40 hours a week.
In 2022, households in California needed an hourly wage of 39 U.S. dollars to afford the rent of a two-bedroom apartment. Hawaii had the least affordable two-bedroom apartments, as a household would have to earn at least 40.6 U.S. dollars per hour in order to afford rent payments. These figures are considerably higher than the