> There's never any follow up like "where in the country does this occur?"

Are you serious?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2023/

Table 3. Their methodology is addressed in the technical notes.

> You're also ignoring _how_ it came to be. . .

No. You asked a specific question and I was bored enough to help you look up a result. I’m not here to engage with whatever ideological problems you have going on in the subtext.