South Carolina order brief
Published local guides: Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach.
First decision
South Carolina has no state minimum wage statute of its own, so the wage floor for Charleston crews comes straight from the federal Fair Labor Standards Act: $7.25 an hour for covered employers. There is no separate state figure to reconcile, which is not true one state north.
Published references
Role references currently span $32.50–$48.50/hr. Each number below links to the city row that publishes it.
Worksite evidence
The Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center is 142,500 total sq ft, including a 23,700 sq ft column-less exhibit hall with direct loading dock access, and is billed on its own site as South Carolina's only downtown convention center, meaning it absorbs all major downtown trade-show bookings with no second downtown venue to split crew demand.
The Greenville Convention Center runs 280,000 sq ft of exhibit and event space, with a single-floor max of 125,000 sq ft, plus 60,000 sq ft of meeting space and a 30,000 sq ft ballroom at 1 Exposition Drive, so crew counts for most trade shows should be built off the single-floor max, not the whole-building total.
The Myrtle Beach Convention Center's exhibit hall is 100,800 sq ft of column-free space divisible into three sections, per the facility's own specs. It anchors the shoulder-season calendar, the trade shows, tournaments, and conventions that keep crews working outside the beach months.
