State Comparison of Peer Recovery Worker Wages with Living Wages

ZipRecruiter provides real time data on wage offers by state. I compared mean wage offers with the Glasmeier's Living Wage Calculator. Because ZipRecruiter data are real time wage offers, they can change from month to month, I archived the state wage offer data from November 30, 2023. These data are entered into an Excel spreadsheet for comparisons with living wages. Because the living wage data in the 2023 calculator are based on 2022 dollars, I inflated living wages to 2022 dollars based on the rise in prices from mid-year 2022 to mid-year 2023.