Orange County Living Wage is a volunteer-driven nonprofit working to promote a living wage in Orange County, North Carolina.
Through our employer certification program, we recognize local businesses and organizations who pay the 2023 living wage of $16.60 per hour, or $15.10 per hour if the employer pays at least half the cost of health insurance. The living wage rate is adjusted annually.
Inspired by the success of the nation’s leading living wage certification program, Asheville’s Just Economics, OCLW formed in 2015 to address the effects of the state’s unrealistically low wage floor: the $7.25 federal minimum wage, which has not changed since 2009.
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