increase in average wages it would be eleven dollars and sixty two cents according to the economic policy institute a.b. i also found that if the minimum wage had kept pace with pride that productivity increases as a dead until nine hundred sixty eight it would be over one thousand dollars an hour today meanwhile wages in some of the nation's most prosperous cities may finally be catching up with the tightening labor market but wall street journal reports that in cities including minneapolis and denver with unemployment under three percent wages are increasing and response minneapolis for example has an unemployment rate of just two point three percent and the labor department says private sector wages increase four percent year over year and the second quarter of twenty seven team the journal also reports that basic trend of wage increases at double the national average as also holding and cities including san jose. also in the end game want to bring all of this news as a report from the human resources management company paychecks the firm says they're small business jobs and excel points seventy eig