The website 24/7 Wall St has determined the lowest-paying jobs in America, and it finds that women dominate 18 of the top 25 occupations on the list. It turns out that those in the laundry and dry-cleaning business make the least of all US workers. The site compiled the list based on 2018 median annual earnings for full-time wage and salary workers, via the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 10 lowest-paying jobs, and the money average employees pull make in a year:
- Laundry and dry-cleaning workers: $22,464
- Fast food workers (and other servers who prepare food): $22,672
- Dishwashers: $22,932
- Bussers: $23,244
- Food preparation workers: $24,076
- Cashiers: $24,180
- Maids and housekeeping cleaners: $24,284
- Hosts and hostesses: $24,492
- Non-restaurant food servers: $25,168
- Cooks: $25,272
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