It should be tied to the highest COL region (so that it does not economically limit geographic mobility) and it should allow someone living there to:

• Pay rent of a 1b/1ba apartment at current market rate with less than 1/3 income. As well as utilities (Internet included)
• Pay for a healthy diet at current costs of food.
• Pay for all medical care that could be necessary (this shouldn't actually cost anything but a small tax on the income).

And

• Pay for tuition and all costs associated with being a full-time university student while working 25% of the year. Or
• Leave sufficient income after expenses to save up for a market rate home in 5-7 years of working full-time.

(Note that this is all predicated on continued use of a capitalist economic system and would likely be much easier to achieve in ways not directly tied to wage in a more advanced economic system.)

Whatever it takes to afford and apartment and eat food and commute to a job.

Enough to live off of. The worker deserves their due.

e.g. if we really want to be a Christian nation, these earlier writings come to mind: Leviticus 19:13, Deuteronomy 24:15, 1 Timothy 5:18-19, Jesus reiterates in Luke 10:7, James 5:4, and many, many others.

Whatever it takes to have a place to stay. Three meals a day. Get medical care.

The rich.

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Average rental price per month divided by 40 hours a week or 160 hours a month.

$1200 / 160 hours = 7.5

Obviously this is just an example

Some of my comment got lost:

Your housing costs should only be a third of your total income or less. Thats the place i was going with it. Oops