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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.
In Chicago, there’s a separate minimum wage of $15.40 ($9.24 for tipped workers). Looking ahead: The state’s minimum wage is set to jump $1 every year until 2025, when it reaches $15. The ...
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his presidential campaign, President Biden pledged to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an ...
The minimum wage is going up in a record 23 states and 65 cities and counties in 2025. More areas are adopting $15 an hour - or higher - as pay floor
The Raise the Wage Act of 2017, which was simultaneously introduced in the House of Representatives with 166 Democratic cosponsors, would raise the minimum wage to $9.25 per hour immediately, and then gradually increase it to $15 per hour by 2024, while simultaneously raising the minimum wage for tipped workers and phasing it out. [174]
The Fight for $15 movement has succeeded in several states and cities in raising the minimum wage to $15 or more per hour. In California , the minimum wage has been raised in stages since 2016, starting from a rate of $10 per hour, and will reach $15 per hour in 2022. [ 80 ]
The General Assembly’s Fair Wage Act of 2023 increased Maryland’s state minimum wage from $13.25 to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2024. Some counties in Maryland have higher minimum wages depending ...
An additional six states have approved gradual increases to $15 an hour. Oregon, where the minimum wage is currently $14.20, adjusts its rate for inflation every year on July 1.