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January 1 not only ushered in 2025 but a slew of new laws. In 2024, states tackled issues ranging from abortion rights to gender-affirming care for minors, advancing legislation to take effect the ...
The ordinance requires the wage to jump to $25 per hour on February 1, 2025, with steady increases to $30 per hour by July 1, 2028 — in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics hosted in Los Angeles.
In California, the state minimum wage as of January 1, 2024 was $16 per hour. [6] [note 1] As of July 2024, California had the highest minimum wage of any state and was the highest in the country except for some part of New York (which also have a $16/hour minimum wage) and the District of Columbia (which has a minimum wage of $17.50/hour). [9]
However, the city of Portland will increase its minimum wage to $13, $14 and then $15 at the beginning of 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively. And that is not the only caveat to state minimum wage laws.
The first federal minimum wage was created as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but declared unconstitutional. In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act established it at $0.25 an hour ($5.19 in 2022 dollars).
Following the enactment of the Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Act (Law 47 of 2021) there will be a yearly increase of the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.50 per hour by July 1, 2024. Minimum wage increased to $8.50 on January 1, 2022, [ 328 ] with subsequent increases for all employees covered by the FLSA as follows: [ 329 ]
With the increase, Washington will continue to have the highest minimum wage of all states at $16.28, up from $15.74. Meanwhile, Hawaii will see the largest increase in its minimum wage – from ...
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.