Because of its many errors, the UW study finds the biggest negative effects on jobs in the history of minimum wage research — implying that four out of every five workers getting raises lost their jobs. These findings are way out of line with most high-quality minimum wage research, which has found small to negligible adverse impacts. The UW findings strain credulity — especially since the Seattle increases studied (just $10.50 to $13.00 as of 2016 depending on firm size) were not that big for a city with median wages as high as Seattle's.