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The state minimum wage is applicable to employers of six or more employees at one location not involved in interstate commerce [1] and for tipped employees is 30% of the federal minimum wage. [199] Wisconsin: $7.25 [313] $2.33 There is a special minimum wage for golf caddies: $5.90 per 9 holes and $10.50 per 18 holes.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the minimum wage in the United States would have been $18.28 in 2013 if the minimum wage kept pace with labor productivity. [139] To adjust for increased rates of worker productivity in the United States, raising the minimum wage to $22 (or more) an hour has been presented. [140] [141] [142] [143]
In 2013, 50% of minimum wage workers were between the ages of 15 and 19; in 1997, it was 36%. 50.2% of workers in this age group were paid minimum wage in 2013, an increase from 31.5% in 1997. Statistics Canada notes that "youth, women and persons with a low level of education were the groups most likely to be paid at minimum wage." [2]
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 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.
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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 ...
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.