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Minimum wage is $15.00 as of January 1, 2024. [248] For employees working in Montgomery County, the minimum wage is $17.15 per hour for businesses with 51 or more employees and $15.50 per hour for businesses with 11 to 50 employees, effective July 1, 2024. [249]
The General Assembly’s Fair Wage Act of 2023 increased Maryland’s state minimum wage from $13.25 to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2024. Some counties in Maryland have higher minimum wages depending ...
In 2013, Elrich was the lead sponsor of legislation to increase the county's minimum wage, which raised it to $11.50 per hour. [20] Elrich twice was the lead sponsor of legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Montgomery County. In January 2017, a bill passed in the Council and was vetoed by then County Executive Ike Legget. [21]
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50 on January 1.
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.
The minimum wage was last increased federally in 2009, which is easily the longest period without a raise in the federal minimum wage — 15 years — since the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed ...
Click on states on that map to see exact minimum wage info by state. ... State minimum wages, in dollars. Sept. 30, 2024: Image title: State minimum wages, in dollars ...
December 31, 2024 at 11:39 AM. Nearly half the states in the U.S. are set for minimum wage increases on Jan. 1, 2025, which will mean a pay hike for some 9.2 million workers, ...