Prices for

An hour of minimum wage

per hour

9,009 sats

$7.25 in Sep 2026BTC avg $80,472

The federal minimum wage for one hour of work ($7.25 since July 2009, U.S. Department of Labor via FRED). Its sats value is what an hour of work buys in bitcoin.

Change over 1 year: +40.64% sats; 0.00% USD
Change over 5 years: -42.91% sats; 0.00% USD
Change over 10 years: -99.25% sats; 0.00% USD
Since Jul 2015: -99.64% sats; 0.00% USD

Jul 2015: ₿0.0253 ($7.25) → Sep 2026: 9,009 sats ($7.25). Sats prices fall when bitcoin's purchasing power rises.

All change sats n/a · USD n/a

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Sats: orange area, right scale. USD: blue line, left scale. Monthly values; sats at each month's average BTC price

Source

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED), series FEDMINNFRWG. Monthly.

Sats use the average of BTC's daily closes (Coinbase, UTC) in each month; for the current month, the average so far.