Hawaii has earned the pinnacle position on many lists through the years, but nobody longs to be No. 1 on the “most unaffordable to rent” roster, and yet here we are.

Hawaii is tops for how much hourly employees have to earn in order to avoid spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent. That ratio is what has been urged through the years for prudent household budgeting, but increasingly it’s been tough to hit that mark.

On average, the hourly wage needs to be $31.64 to make a two-bedroom rental affordable in Hono-lulu, where the fair market rent for that is $1,644.

A renter would need to slave away for 163 hours a week at minimum wage — or more than four people would have to hold down full-time minimum-wage jobs — to cover it.

Hopefully they would all like each other.

Crowe shows aloha for critics

It was nice to see Cameron Crowe respond constructively Tuesday to one of the criticisms he had received about his new movie, “Aloha.”

The Oscar-winning Hollywood director was slammed by some in Hawaii for casting a Caucasian (Emma Stone) as a part-Hawaiian, and this week he offered his “heartfelt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.”

He said he was “grateful for the dialogue,” and now realized how “so many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I’m anxious to help tell those stories in the future.”

We look forward to seeing what stories those might be.