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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.
Jackson received public attention in early 2006 as a sponsor of a bill to increase Tennessee's minimum wage to $1.00 an hour above the then-federally required $5.15/hr. Unlike many other states, Tennessee has never had a state minimum wage requirement in excess of the federal rate.
It’s the same story in Tennessee: In lieu of a state minimum wage, the federal minimum wage of $7.25 applies in most cases. ... minimum wage are planned, and the state Senate recently passed ...
[163] [164] In 2016 New York and California became the first states to pass legislation that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour in each state, [165] [166] followed by Massachusetts in 2018. [167] In April 2014, the U.S. Senate debated the minimum wage on the federal level by way of the Minimum Wage Fairness Act.
The 2010 minimum wage is emerging as a midterm election issue. Connecticut GOP U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon put that in play by recommending the nation review it. In her state it's $8.25.
The state requires employers to pay tipped employees who earn more than $30 in tips, a minimum cash wage above the federal minimum cash wage of $7.25 per hour. Davel5957 / Getty Images Arkansas: $11
Click on states on that map to see exact minimum wage info by state. ... California 16.00 Colorado 14.42 Connecticut ... Tennessee 7.25 Texas 7.25 Utah 7.25
That is almost seven times the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour and more than three times the California minimum wage of $16 per hour. “I know what worker productivity means,” Lee said ...