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(The Center Square) – Twenty-one states across the US are raising the minimum wage in 2025. Pennsylvania Democrats would like to see the commonwealth soon join their ranks. Sen. Art Haywood, D ...
Two states have minimum wages below that number, and five don’t have a minimum wage. Wolf continuously has pushed to raise the Keystone State’s minimum wage to $12 an hour and eliminate the $2 ...
Looking ahead: Though Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has been stagnant since 2009, ... Workers in Michigan saw a modest minimum-wage increase in 2021, to $10.10 from $9.87. Tipped workers, who make ...
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 Raise the Wage Act of 2017, which was simultaneously introduced in the House of Representatives with 166 Democratic cosponsors, would raise the minimum wage to $9.25 per hour immediately, and then gradually increase it to $15 per hour by 2024, while simultaneously raising the minimum wage for tipped workers and phasing it out. [173]
Minimum wage [ edit ] In 2023, Laughlin introduced a bill that would raise Pennsylvania's $7.25 minimum wage to $11 by the next year and $15 by the following year.
The push to raise it has gone on for years because minimum wage workers stuck at $7.25 have lost substantial buying power. Had it just been adjusted for inflation since 2009, it would be $10.33 today.
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, not even close to the buying power it once brought workers — which peaked all the way back in the 1960s.