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The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
The 1938 minimum wage law only applied to "employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce," but in amendments in 1961 and 1966, the federal minimum wage was extended (with slightly different rates) to employees in large retail and service enterprises, local transportation and construction, state ...
Nearly half the states in the U.S. are set for minimum wage increases on Jan. 1, which will mean a pay hike for some 9.2 million workers, according to recent data. An analysis by The Economic ...
The minimum wage is going up in a record 23 states and 65 cities and counties in 2025. More areas are adopting $15 an hour - or higher - as pay floor ... according to the MIT Living Wage Calculator.
The Biden administration proposes to phase out exceptions over three years to the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 per hour.. The Labor Department found in July about 700 employers held ...
Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act states that with the approval of the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) certain employers can pay employees with disabilities below the minimum wage. [41] In order for the subminimum wage to apply, the disability of the worker must directly affect their productivity in their given ...
In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act established the federal minimum wage. Businesses were required to pay employees at least $0.25 per hour (the equivalent of $4.74 in 2023 dollars). Congress ...
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. ... She points to MIT’s living wage calculator to assess what a single person without kids would have ...