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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 the current wave of minimum wage legislative action, Seattle, Washington, was the first city to enact on June 2, 2014, a local ordinance to increase the minimum wage for all workers to $15.00 per hour, [51] which phases in over seven years. [52]
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. Read ...
On July 1, several states and cities are set to raise their minimum wage.
"The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, ... Meanwhile, Washington increased its minimum wage annually starting in 2016 and has seen similar declines in unemployment over the same period.
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.
On November 3, 2020, 61% of Florida voters passed Amendment 2, which raises the minimum wage to $10.00 per hour effective September 30, 2021, and then increases it annually by $1.00 per hour until the minimum wage reaches $15.00 per hour in 2026 and then reverts to being adjusted annually for inflation.