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Maine Question 4, formally An Act to Raise the Minimum Wage, [1] is a citizen-initiated referendum question that appeared on the Maine November 8, 2016 statewide ballot. It sought to increase Maine's minimum wage from $7.50 per hour to $12 an hour by 2020, as well as increasing the minimum wage for tipped employees gradually to the same level ...
Maine: $12.75 $13.80 $14.15 ... History of Federal Minimum Wage United States Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division. Maps and charts of minimum wage vs. housing ...
Maine: $14.65 $7.33 The minimum wage increased to $14.65 and tipped minimum wage to $7.33 on January 1, 2025. The tipped rate is half of the current state minimum wage. [246] Rockland: Starting on January 1, 2025, for employers with more than 25 employees, the minimum wage will be $15.50.
The minimum wage, unchanged since 2009 federally, ... Like Arizona, Maine’s minimum wage rose 15 cents at the beginning of 2021, going to $12.15 from $12. Tipped workers, whose wage is set at ...
Minimum wage increases ranged from $0.22 to $1.50 an hour, adding between $458 and $3,120 to the annual earnings of full-time minimum wage workers. ... Maine: $0.60 increase from $12.15 to $12.75 ...
State minimum wage: A proposed increase in Maine's minimum wage from $7.50 per hour to $12 an hour by 2020, as well as increasing the minimum wage for tipped employees gradually to the same level by 2024. Voting reforms: Changing the state voting system from plurality voting to ranked choice voting (also known as instant runoff voting).
The Fairness Project's focus for 2016 was a campaign to improve minimum wages. The campaign initially focused on three regions: Maine, California, and Washington, D.C., whose 2015 minimum wages were $7.50, $9.00, and $10.50 respectively. This provided a geographical mix and many difficulties – it was believed that while Washington and Maine ...
In July 2019, the U.S. House passed a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, which could increase the incomes of 17 milli on to 27 million minimum wage workers, according ...