For years, the debate over whether companies pay wages high enough to keep workers above the poverty levels has grown louder and louder. The fruits debate of this includes increases in minimum wages in many states. Additionally, companies like Amazon.com and Walmart have bumped up their lowest hourly pay in an attempt to address the criticism.

…The company with the lowest-paid employees based on data provided by MyLogIQ, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide analysis of public company data, (subscription available) was Aptiv, a customer service software corporation. Its proxy shows the median compensation of its employees at $5,906, well below the U.S. poverty level. Aptiv reported it had 151,000 workers in 44 countries.