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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.
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 and indexing it to inflation would result in a net $2 billion increase in income during the second half of 2016, while raising it to $9.00 and not indexing it would result in a net $1 billion increase in income. [110] Additionally, a study by Overstreet in 2019 examined increases to the minimum wage in Arizona.
A New York Times analysis of the effective national minimum wage — an average across all federal, state and local minimum wage laws — found a rate of $11.80 an hour in 2019. According to the ...
In California, the minimum wage has been raised in stages since 2016, starting from a rate of $10 per hour, and will reach $15 per hour in 2022. [78] Several cities in California have already raised the minimum wage to $15 or more, including Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Mountain View, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, and Sunnyvale. [79]
In 2016, California became the first state to pass a $15 hourly minimum wage under a law signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, also a Democrat. About 40 cities and counties already have minimum wages ...
The minimum wage increase examined by CBO is similar to the wage increase called for in the Raise the Wage Act of 2019, which would bump the minimum wage to $15 by 2024 and would be indexed to ...
Starting on January 1, 2019, the minimum wage was to be "adjusted annually based on the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose regional Consumer Price Index." [ 30 ] A proposal to slow down the rate of the wage increases by a year [ 32 ] [ 33 ] was defeated in a City Council meeting on December 4, 2018. [ 34 ]
California is raising the minimum wage for fast food workers, ... The state’s current minimum wage is $15.50 an hour and will increase to $16 an hour on January 1.