Underemployment tells the story of people working full-time, year-round, and still living in poverty. MIT's Living Wage Calculator estimates the hourly rate a person must earn in a single-person household or a household with children. The tool offers County-estimated data based on minimum wage, poverty wage, and living wage. The Bexar County estimates are updated through 2020 and show that the required annual income before taxes for a household of one is $28,077 for a living wage of $13.50/hour. The required annual income before taxes for a household of four with only one adult working is $63,742 for a living wage of $30.65/hour.
Reduce the percentage of individuals who worked full-time and year-round and live below poverty to 2% (2% by 2030)
Year | Value | Margin of Error |
---|---|---|
2010 | 4% | ±0.5% |
2011 | 4% | ±0.7% |
2012 | 5% | ±0.7% |
2013 | 4% | ±0.6% |
2014 | 5% | ±0.6% |
2015 | 4% | ±0.6% |
2016 | 4% | ±0.6% |
2017 | 4% | ±0.5% |
2018 | 5% | ±0.6% |
2019 | 3% | ±0.5% |
2020 | -- | |
2021 | 3% | ±0.6% |
2022 | 5% | ±0.7% |
Individuals Who Worked Full-Time and Year-Round and Live Below Poverty
US Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-Yr Estimate, Table S1701
San Antonio
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020