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IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Baltimore, MD - March 15, 2004 - Optimal Solutions Group has been selected to evaluate the wage, administrative, compliance, and regulatory costs of a new living wage ordinance in Durham County, North Carolina.

Effective July 1, 2004, the Durham County service contractors will be required to pay their employers not less than $9.51 per hour. Durham County currently requires that County employees make not less than the same living wage.

View some of Optimal's other minimum and living wage research or view economic development research.

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