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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.
Minimum wage by state by year. In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. [4] 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. [5]
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Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money—for example $7.25 per hour ($14,500 per year) under certain US state laws (or $2.13 for employees who receive tips, which is known as the tipped minimum wage), $16.28 per hour in the U.S. state of Washington, [29] or £11.44 ...
State or territory Mean wage in US$ [6] 1 District of Columbia: $87,920 2 Massachusetts: $63,910 3 New York: $61,870 4 Connecticut: $60,780 5 Washington: $59,410 6 California: $59,150 7 Maryland: $58,770 8 Alaska: $58,710 9 New Jersey: $58,210 10 Colorado: $55,820 11 Virginia: $55,310 12 Rhode Island: $54,810 13 Minnesota: $54,200 14 Illinois ...
Jan. 16—OLYMPIA — During the 2023 election cycle in Washington, 20 school bond measures went on ballots in local elections. Of them, only two met the 60% threshold of votes needed to pass.
A 2023 petition to the FTC to ban non-compete agreements estimated that about 30 million workers (about 20% of all U.S. workers) were subject to a noncompete clause. [3] While higher-wage workers are comparatively more likely to be covered by non-compete clauses, non-competes covered 14 percent of workers without college degrees in 2018. [ 4 ]
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