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US state minimum wage rates. 2025. [12]State 2025 Alabama $7.25 [note 1] Alaska $11.91 Arizona $14.70 Arkansas $11.00 California $16.50 Colorado $14.81 Connecticut $16.35
Millions of low-wage earners are getting a raise in 2025 as 21 states are slated to hike their minimum pay starting Jan. 1. ... Colorado's base hour wage is rising to $14.81, up 39 cents, due to ...
Nearly half the states in the U.S. are set for minimum wage increases on Jan. 1, which will mean a pay hike for some 9.2 million workers, according to recent data. An analysis by The Economic ...
Cook County: $14.05 since July 1, 2024 eventually aligning with Illinois' statewide $15 minimum wage by 2025. The base wage for tipped employees is $8.40 since January 1, 2025. [234] However, a large number of municipalities located within Cook County have opted-out of the county-level minimum wage ordinance. [235] Indiana: $7.25 [236] $2.13 ...
The New York Times editorial board wrote in August 2013: "As measured by the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 an hour, low-paid work in America is lower paid today than at any time in modern memory. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation or average wages over the past nearly 50 years, it would be about $10 an hour; if it had kept ...
The November unemployment rate of 5.1% was up a tenth from October and up November 2023's 4.3% . Kentucky’s jobless rate also exceeds the national figure of 4.2%, which also was up a tenth from ...
Kentucky took the approach of raising taxes and lowering benefits to attempt to balance its unemployment insurance program. Starting in 2010, a claimant's weekly benefits will decrease from 68% to 62% and the taxable wage base will increase from US$8,000 to US$12,000, over a ten-year period.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.