A living wage in Portland is $27.47 per hour. Here’s the percentage of entry-level jobs that hit that mark

A new analysis puts Portland among the big U.S. cities with the lowest percentage of entry job postings with livable wages, including Miami, Atlanta and Orlando.

PORTLAND, Ore. — This story comes from the Portland Business Journal, a KGW news partner. The full story is here.

A new wave of employees is entering the workforce following high school and college graduations, but in Portland they enter a job market where the percentage of entry-level jobs paying a living wage is one of the lowest in the country.

That’s according to a new analysis by online lender NetCredit of data from the MIT Living Wage

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