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United States Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division. Inflation Adjusted Minimum Wage by Year. Compares minimum wage adjusted for inflation by year. History of Federal Minimum Wage United States Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division. Maps and charts of minimum wage vs. housing costs – National Low Income Housing Coalition (advocacy ...
Beginning on July 1, 2021, Washington D.C. has the highest minimum wages in the country, at $16.50 per hour. [195] New York City's minimum wage for companies with 11 or more employees became $15.00 per hour on December 31, 2018. [196] On the same day, NYC's hourly minimum wage for companies with 10 or fewer employees became $13.50. [196]
In July 2019, the U.S. House passed a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, which could increase the incomes of 17 milli on to 27 million minimum wage workers, according ...
Also in 1937, New York passed a minimum wage law protecting women and minors. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a national minimum wage standard and a forty hour work week, and in this same year, an amendment to the New York State Constitution established a "Bill of Rights" for working people. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ...
In 2019, only 1.6 million Americans earned no more than the federal minimum wage—about ~1% of workers, and less than ~2% of those paid by the hour. Less than half worked full time; almost half were aged 16–25; and more than 60% worked in the leisure and hospitality industries, where many workers received tips in addition to their hourly wages.
Average wage in the United States was $69,392 in 2020. [1] Median income per person in the U.S. was $42,800 in 2019. [ 2 ] The average is higher than the median because there are a small number of individuals with very high earnings, and a large number of individuals with relatively low earnings.
When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in the New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
[213] But in July 2004, PEF agreed to a new four-year contract which included salary increases of $800 in the first year; 2.5 percent, 2.75 percent, and 3 percent salary increases in the last three years; and a new "locality pay" increase for workers in the mid-Hudson Valley region (where the cost of living was significantly higher than ...