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The U.S. Department of Labor reports the minimum wage for Texas is $7.25 per hour, as of Jan. 1. — USA TODAY reporter Mehdi Punjwani and BLUEPRINT reporter Sierra Campbell contributed to this ...
Minimum wage employees in 22 states received a raise to start 2024 — the Lone Star State was not one of them. Here's how we compare Some states are raising minimum wage in 2024.
The minimum wage in Texas, which applies to covered, nonexempt minimum wage workers, is only $7.25 per hour. Yet according to a living wage calculator developed by researchers at the Massachusetts ...
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.
This result would mean that the total amount of wages paid to minimum wage employees in the fast food industry in New Jersey increased 13.4 percent as a result of the increase in the minimum wage (employment declined 4.6 percent, but the minimum wage increased 18.8 percent, for a total change in wages paid of 13.4 percent).
According to a December 2020 analysis of W-2 earnings data from the Economic Policy Institute U.S. income inequality is worsening, as the earnings of the top 1% nearly doubled from 7.3% in 1979 to 13.2% in 2019 while over the same time period the average annual wages for the bottom 90% have stayed within the $30,000 range, increasing from ...
El Paso County’s weekly average wage of $924 was well below the weekly wage averages for Texas ($1,336) and the nation ($1,334). As a comparison, the wage in nearby Dona Ana County, New Mexico ...
The 1938 minimum wage law only applied to "employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce," but in amendments in 1961 and 1966, the federal minimum wage was extended (with slightly different rates) to employees in large retail and service enterprises, local transportation and construction, state ...