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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.
Initiative 82 would gradually increase the tipped minimum hourly wage from the $5.05 [7] in 2021 to at least $17.50, [8] matching the non-tipped minimum wage in 2027. [9] Although some DC restaurants voluntarily have stopped accepting tips and instead have begun paying their servers at or above minimum wage in the aftermath of Initiative 77 ...
In August 2022, 30 states and the District of Columbia had minimum wages higher than the federal minimum. [8] 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.
In 2018, 55% of voters in DC passed Initiative 77, which got rid of the tip credit system and sought to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers. The DC Council voted 8-5 to repeal the law.
Midterms this year represented a victory for workers in Nebraska, whose minimum wage will go up to $15 an hour, and tipped employees in Washington DC. ... and tipped employees in Washington DC.
Minimum wage increases ranged from $0.22 to $1.50 an hour, adding between $458 and $3,120 to the annual earnings of full-time minimum wage workers.
In 2014, Restaurant Opportunities Center United, a nonprofit organization that advocates for restaurant workers in the United States, said it would ask voters in Washington, D.C., to approve a local ballot measure – Initiative 74 – that would gradually increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2019.
Thirty states and the District of Columbia have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In the remaining states, the federal minimum wage ...