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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.
An estimated 1.3 million workers in the state would benefit from a minimum wage of $12 per hour, including 750,000 women, according to the North Carolina Justice Center. Show comments Advertisement
The minimum wage, unchanged since 2009 federally, may shock the residents of some states, especially those earning a rock-bottom tipped minimum wage. ... North Carolina’s minimum-wage workers ...
The minimum wage in North Carolina is the same as the federal minimum wage — a paltry $7.25 an hour, or about $15,000 a year, where it has remained for 15 years since 2009.
[89] Similarly, a Morgan Study concluded that a national $15 minimum wage would have minimal to no positive or negative effect on employment levels. [90] In contrast, a 1995 analysis of the evidence by David Neumark found that the increase in New Jersey's minimum wage resulted in a 4.6% decrease in employment. Neumark's study relied on payroll ...
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 National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/584) were passed as a statutory instrument under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to specify various detailed ...
The federal minimum wage has remained stuck at $7.25 since 2009, the longest period without an increase since the Fair Labor Standards Act first established a minimum wage in 1938.