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So it may be out of date at times. See date on table at source. [7] 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.
The federal minimum wage was introduced in 1938 at the rate of 25¢ per hour (equivalent to $5.19 in 2022). [78] [7] By 1950 the minimum wage had risen to 75¢ per hour. [82] [7] The purchasing power of the federal minimum wage has fluctuated; it was highest in February 1968, when it was $1.60 per hour.
Instead, the federal minimum wage of $7.25 applies as long as the employer is subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Tipped workers make the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13.
The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but later found to be unconstitutional. [209] In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act established it at 25¢ an hour ($5.41 in 2023). [210] Its purchasing power peaked in 1968, at $1.60 ($14.00 in 2023).
The federal minimum wage in the US hasn’t changed from the hourly rate of $7.25 in over 14 years. But 22 states and 40 cities increased their own minimum wages to ring in the New Year.
The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25, and it's been at that level since July 2009. While the minimum wage has remained the same on the federal level for over a decade, a number of states ...
The state requires employers to pay tipped employees who earn more than $30 in tips, a minimum cash wage above the federal minimum cash wage of $7.25 per hour. Davel5957 / Getty Images Arkansas: $11
The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 [3] is a US Act of Congress that amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to gradually raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour. It was signed into law on May 25, 2007 as part of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations ...