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In the United States workers generally must be paid no less than the statutory minimum wage.As of July 2009, the federal government mandates a nationwide minimum wage level of $7.25 per hour, while some states and municipalities have set minimum wage levels higher than the federal level, with the highest state minimum wage being $9.47 per hour in Washington as of January 1, 2015. [5]
The federal minimum wage was introduced in 1938 at the rate of 25¢ per hour (equivalent to $5.19 in 2022). [76] [5] By 1950 the minimum wage had risen to 75¢ per hour. [81] [5] The purchasing power of the federal minimum wage has fluctuated; it was highest in February 1968, when it was $1.60 per hour.
The bill would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two-year period. [211] The bill was strongly supported by President Barack Obama and many of the Democratic senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House.
The White House Office of Personnel Management issued a directive Friday to raise minimum wage to $15 for many civilian government employees. The change went into effect on Sunday, Jan. 30. The...
President Biden is issuing an executive order today to raise the minimum wage from $10.95 to $15 for federal contractors, the White House said in a statement. See: Do You Think the Minimum Wage ...
The move will increase the current minimum wage of $10.95 by nearly 37% by March of next year and continue to tie future increases to inflation. It will apply to federal workers from cleaning and ...
[2] [3] US federal minimum wage if it had kept pace with the average worker's productivity. Also, the inflation-adjusted minimum wage. [4] The Fight for $15 is an American political movement advocating for the minimum wage to be raised to USD$15 per hour. The federal minimum wage was last set at $7.25 per hour in 2009.
Country Minimum wage Annual (US$) Annual PPP ()Length of standard workweek (hours) Hourly (US$) Hourly (Intl$) % of 2011 GDP per capita Effective Afghanistan The Afghan workweek is actually 40 hours; 45 is used to give a different value for the normalized wage.