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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.
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The Raise the Wage Act of 2017, which was simultaneously introduced in the House of Representatives with 166 Democratic cosponsors, would raise the minimum wage to $9.25 per hour immediately, and then gradually increase it to $15 per hour by 2024, while simultaneously raising the minimum wage for tipped workers and phasing it out. [174]
Minimum wage earners in half of the states across the U.S. will be getting a boost in 2024. Increases in the minimum wage will go into effect on Jan. 1 in 22 states, with three others rolling out...
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50 on January 1.
An effort to gradually bump up the minimum wage to $9.75 in 2024 stagnated in the state legislature. Related: ... when the federal minimum wage hit $7.25. In 2020, Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill ...
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour applies to states with no set minimum wage, and to most workers in states with lower minimum wages. Specifically, those working for employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Special minimum wages apply to some workers in American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.
2023. U.S. minimum wage: $7.25 In 2024 dollars: $7.43 Gabrielle Olya and Amen Oyiboke-Osifo contributed to the reporting for this article.. In order to find the minimum wage the year you were born ...