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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.
Nearly half the states in the U.S. are set for minimum wage increases on Jan. 1, 2025, which will mean a pay hike for some 9.2 million workers, according to recent data. An analysis by The ...
Millions of low-wage earners are getting a raise in 2025 as 21 states are slated to hike their minimum pay starting Jan. 1. ... the minimum wage will increase to $14.65, rising 50 cents ...
Oct. 1—Every year, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries sets a new minimum wage. Beginning Jan. 1, Washington workers must be paid at least $16.66 per hour. Washington ...
The general wage increase is TBD after 2024, TBD after 2026 for seasonal wages, and will stop at $5.13 for tipped workers in 2022, and is TBD in 2025. [271] The minimum wage will increase in 2023 by an additional 13¢ in addition to its standard increases in pay rates due to an increase in the Consumer Price Index. [273]
California's ballot measure, Proposition 32, would raise the state’s current minimum wage of $16 to $17 for the remainder of 2024 for employers with at least 26 employees, increasing to $18 per hour starting in January 2025. Without it, the state's minimum wage is set to increase to $16.50 per hour next year.
Minimum wage increases in the past few years have helped Americans keep pace with annual inflation that reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in mid-2022 before gradually falling to 2.6% recently.
In California, the minimum wage has been raised in stages since 2016, starting from a rate of $10 per hour, and will reach $15 per hour in 2022. [80] Several cities in California have already raised the minimum wage to $15 or more, including Berkeley , El Cerrito , Emeryville , Mountain View , San Francisco , San Jose , San Mateo , and ...