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See minimum wage in the United States for much more info, including detailed state-by-state and city-by-city breakdown of the facts and numbers, and more info on US territories. Some of the sources list many more exceptions to the main rate in each state (both lower or higher than the statewide rate). [ 5 ]
Click on states on that map to see exact minimum wage info by state. See bottom of page for District of Columbia and territories of the United States. Author: See file history for uploaders. The root map is File:Blank US Map (states only).svg - from en:user:Theshibboleth and others who worked on it. Earlier maps: Wikideas1.
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]
Consider minimum wage workers living in the Golden State: They make $16 per hour, which is the third-highest minimum wage in the country (second place goes to Washington at $16.28 and first place ...
Starting in 2024, California will have the second highest statewide minimum wage behind Washington, which is more than double the stagnant $7.25 an hour federal limit.
Alabama. Living Wage: $63,074 Alabama is among the least expensive places in America to live but earning a median wage would still leave inhabitants of the YellowHammer State $3,465 short of a ...
The federal minimum wage in the US hasn’t changed from the hourly rate of $7.25 in over 14 years. But 22 states and 40 cities increased their own minimum wages to ring in the New Year.
Average wage in the United States was $69,392 in 2020. [1] Median income per person in the U.S. was $42,800 in 2019. [ 2 ] The average is higher than the median because there are a small number of individuals with very high earnings, and a large number of individuals with relatively low earnings.