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In May 2008, Rell vetoed a bill to raise the minimum wage in the state of Connecticut. The legislature successfully voted to override Rell's veto in June 2008. [47] The legislation raised Connecticut's minimum wage at the time, $7.65 an hour to $8.00 an hour beginning in January 2009, and to $8.25 an hour in 2010. [48]
Since the start of these protests, a number of states and cities have increased their minimum wage. In 2014, Connecticut for instance passed legislation to raise the minimum wage from $8.70 to $10.10 per hour by 2017, making it one of about six states at the time to aim at or above $10.00 per hour. [162]
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.
In Connecticut, the minimum cash wage payment is $14. For tipped employees such as bartenders and those who work in hotels and restaurants, the tip credit is $8.62 per hour and the minimum cash ...
Colorado's base hour wage is rising to $14.81, up 39 cents, due to inflation.Connecticut workers will make an hourly minimum of $16.35, up 66 cents, and adjusted for inflation.Delaware's minimum ...
The minimum wage, unchanged since 2009 federally, may shock the residents of some states, ... In September, Connecticut raises its minimum wage to $15 from $14 in June. Tipped workers make $6.38 ...
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Minimum wage: $5.15 . In 2024 money: $9.85. The U.S. minimum wage finally broke the $5 mark for the first time in history in 1997. It would hold at $5.15 through the rest of the '90s and most of ...