Keywords: Manufacturing productivity and wages in the United States.svg translate yes en Productivity of manufacturing labor in comparison to the average real wages of those workers and the minimum wage in the USA 1949-2016 each indexed to 1970 100 In 1970 the minimum wage was raised from 1 30 per hour to 1 45 per hour and roughly tracked inflation and productivity from about 1950 to 1969 and would have been 46 80 for manufacturing in 2015 to be the same as it was in 1970 Data from http //www bls gov/lpc/tables htm BLS 2016-03-27 own Delphi234 other versions current annually Generated with Wikimedia SVG Chart SVG Chart/box cc-zero Economic charts of the United States Statistics of the United States Labour Wage charts of the United States Productivity Minimum wage in the United States |