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At the moment, minimum wage workers earn $8.25 an hour in D.C. With the extremely high cost of living in the city, the question isn’t if people can live on $8.25, but how deep in debt they are because they have to.

The New York Times created a nifty tool that shows just that. By entering the cost of your rent, utilities, food and other bills, people who make more than $8.25 can see how deep in debt they would be if they made the minimum wage. Try it out then meet back here.

Not great, right? This DCist editor would be in $16,224 of debt for the year if she made $8.25 an hour.

President Barack Obama has called on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.50. And in December, Mayor Vince Gray signed a bill that will increase the minimum wage in D.C. to $9.50 this July, $10.50 next year and $11.50 in 2016. This will positively impact over 1,500 fast food workers, 5,200 cashiers, and 5,600 waiters.