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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.
The minimum wage is going up in a record 23 states and 65 cities and counties in 2025. More areas are adopting $15 an hour - or higher - as pay floor
Effective January 1, 2025, the minimum wage increased to $15.01 and the tipped minimum wage increased to $7.01. In future years, the state minimum wage will be indexed to increase with inflation. Virginia: $12.41 [309] $2.13 The minimum wage in Virginia increased from $11.00 to $12.00 on January 1, 2023. [309]
In California, the state minimum wage as of January 1, 2024 was $16 per hour. [6] [note 1] As of July 2024, California had the highest minimum wage of any state and was the highest in the country except for some part of New York (which also have a $16/hour minimum wage) and the District of Columbia (which has a minimum wage of $17.50/hour). [9]
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009. That was 13 years ago. That's the longest the minimum wage has remained stagnant since the Fair Labor Standards Act first set it at 25 ...
Proposition 32 will ask California voters if the statewide minimum wage should be increased to $18 an hour. The current minimum wage in California is $16 an hour and adjusts for inflation.
California's ballot measure, Proposition 32, would raise the state’s current minimum wage of $16 to $17 for the remainder of 2024 for employers with at least 26 employees, increasing to $18 per hour starting in January 2025. Without it, the state's minimum wage is set to increase to $16.50 per hour next year.
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50 on January 1.