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Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.
The 1938 minimum wage law only applied to "employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce," but in amendments in 1961 and 1966, the federal minimum wage was extended (with slightly different rates) to employees in large retail and service enterprises, local transportation and construction, state ...
1938. Minimum wage: $0.25 In 2025 money: $5.59 The original minimum wage was a quarter an hour. If that sounds terrible, that's because it was. That kind of pay provided less than two-thirds of ...
The federal minimum wage is currently at $7.25 — money that has stayed the same since 2009. In the late 1960s, minimum wage was worth over $14 in today’s dollars. In the late 1960s, minimum ...
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.
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, ... 1938. Minimum wage: $0.25. In 2024 money: $5.44. The original minimum wage was a quarter an hour. If that sounds terrible, that's ...
The history of minimum wage is about the attempts and measures governments have made to introduce, ... 19 December 1938: 13 shillings: $69.47 9 November 1940: 14 ...
The last time that the federal minimum wage was raised was July 24, 2009. It is a record length of time with no increase since the first minimum wage in 1938 ($0.25 an hour) was signed into law ...