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The measure, co-sponsored by Sen. Adam Gomez and Rep. Carlos Gonzalez, both Springfield Democrats, would bring farm worker salaries to the state’s prevailing minimum wage, currently at $15 an hour.
An effort to gradually bump up the minimum wage to $9.75 in 2024 stagnated in the state legislature. ... Looking ahead: Utah’s minimum-wage workers haven’t seen a pay bump since 2009.
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. ... The push to raise it has gone on for years because minimum wage workers stuck at $7.25 have lost ...
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. [174]
[58] [page needed] Similarly, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which sets minimum wage and overtime pay requirements does not apply to farm labor. In 1966, the minimum wage requirement, but not the overtime pay, was extended to apply to farm workers who worked on farms where there was over approximately 7 full-time employees in a quarter.
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.
Twenty-two states raised minimum wages as of Jan. 1, 2024 and Florida, Nevada and Oregon will raise theirs in 2024. Where workers are getting a raise: 25 states are raising the minimum wage in 2024
Employers have to pay workers the highest minimum wage of those prescribed by federal, state, and local laws. In August 2022, 30 states and the District of Columbia had minimum wages higher than the federal minimum. [214]