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Hourly workers in the motion picture and sound recording industries were more than twice as likely as the national average to be paid at the minimum wage or less in 2013, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The median hourly wage in the motion picture and recording industries also lagged the national median hourly wage by about 27 percent.
In the average month of 2013, according to BLS, there were 75,948,000 people in the United States employed in a job for which they were paid an hourly wage. Of these 75,948,000 workers, 1,768,000 were paid less than the prevailing minimum wage and 1,532,000 were paid at the minimum wage.
These combined 3,300,000 workers paid at or below the minimum wage equaled approximately 4.4 percent of all hourly-wage workers.
“The presence of a sizable number of workers with wages below the federal minimum does not necessarily indicate violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as there are exemptions to the minimum wage provisions of the law,” BLS explained in its 2012 report on the “Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers.”