Tompkins County Living Wage Is Now Almost $25 An Hour According To Cornell Study

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A person working full time needs to make over $51,000 a year, or $24.85 an hour, to live in Tompkins County, according to a new study from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

In 2023, the last time the study was conducted, the county’s living wage was calculated at $18.45. The projected amount needed to make a living wage jumped by over 30% between the two studies. The legal minimum wage in upstate New York is $15.50.

The study defines a living wage as the “minimum hourly amount that a full-time worker must earn to afford basic necessities.”

 

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The taxes in Ithaca are crazy!  People at work complain all the time.  Most of us that work in Ithaca can't afford to live there.  Teachers come from Cortland, Groton, Dryden, and I come from Elmira to work in Ithaca.  Only teachers with husbands that are lawyers or engineers or professors at Cornell live in Ithaca. The more they do to help the homeless, the more homeless seem to come.  It does seem like a never ending money pit for them.