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(I moved this to its own comment to keep the explanation above a bit more succinct.)
This is actually something that bothers me quite a lot when I've had discussions with Americans about minimum wage. They see this figure of US$16.12/hour and go "well Australia doesn't really have that much higher of a minimum wage than us" or "see we don't really need to aim for anything more than $15/hour". When the reality is that that burger flipper at risk of being let go without cause is actually making US$21.42/hour under their industry award and has their wage increases tied to CPI so they're never worse off year over year.