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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.
In the rest of the state, the hourly minimum is rising to $15 from $14.20, an 80-cent hike — and the realization of a $15 statewide minimum wage goal set into motion seven years ago in New York.
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.
Illinois: The minimum wage will increase from its current $12 to $13 on Jan. 1, 2023. Rhode Island: The minimum wage will increase from its current $12.25 to $13 on Jan. 1, 2023. Maryland: The ...
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] The minimum wage in Illinois will reach $15 per hour by 2025 with increases beginning in 2020. [197]
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 ...
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009. That was 13 years ago. That's the longest the minimum wage has remained stagnant since the Fair Labor Standards Act first set it at 25 ...
History of the US federal minimum wage. Lower line is nominal dollars. Top line is inflation-adjusted. [1] [2] The Raise the Wage Act is a proposed United States law that would increase the federal minimum wage to US$17. [3] [4] Versions of the bill have been introduced in each United States Congress since 2017.