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Although minimum wage is higher now than it was years ago, it isn't keeping up with the cost of living. ... 1948. U.S. minimum wage: $0.40. In 2020 dollars: ... Value-seekers drove 2024's retail ...
The 1938 minimum wage law only applied to "employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce," but in amendments in 1961 and 1966, the federal minimum wage was extended (with slightly different rates) to employees in large retail and service enterprises, local transportation and construction, state ...
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, not even close to the buying power it once brought workers — which peaked all the way back in the 1960s.
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.
The wages board did not set a universal minimum wage; rather it set basic wages for 6 industries that were considered to pay low wages. [7] First enacted as a four-year experiment, the wages board was renewed in 1900 and made permanent in 1904; by that time it covered 150 different industries. [ 7 ]
1950. Minimum wage: $0.75 In 2024 money: $9.56 By 1950, the recession that followed World War II was over and America was entering an unprecedented era of prosperity and economic stability. That ...
The New York Times editorial board wrote in August 2013: "As measured by the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 an hour, low-paid work in America is lower paid today than at any time in modern memory. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation or average wages over the past nearly 50 years, it would be about $10 an hour; if it had kept ...
The minimum wage was a major factor in British industrial relations from 1909 until the 1930s. [6] After a study of the minimum wage laws in Australia and New Zealand the Liberal Party acted to set up a minimum wage in the most heavily sweated or underpaid industries, as part of a broad range of social reforms.