Big Macs would only go up 68 cents if McDonald's low wage workers had pay doubled

Alternet - A new study by a University of Kansas researcher has found that the fast food corporation McDonald’s can easily up the pay of its low-wage workers--even without substantially increasing the price of its cheap food. The Huffington Post’s Caroline Fairchild reports that the study shows that doubling the salaries and benefits of every single McDonald’s employee would only result in a slight increase in food prices--68 cents for Big Macs.

And every item on the Dollar Menu would only have to go up by 17 cents, according to the researcher, Arnobio Morelix. He examined the McDonald’s annual report and found that “only 17.1 percent of the fast-food giant's revenue goes toward salaries and benefits.”