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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
California raised its minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 this year. In 2025, the minimum wage for other workers in the state will be raised to $16.50. ... The minimum wage is being raised ...
Millions of low-wage earners are getting a raise in 2025 as 21 states are slated to hike their minimum pay starting Jan. 1. ... the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour hasn't budged since 2009 ...
Hourly minimum wages increased in 21 states in 2025, mostly due to ongoing efforts to have pay keep up with the rising cost of living. ... The federal minimum wage continues to sit at $7.25 an ...
The federal minimum wage was introduced in 1938 at the rate of 25¢ per hour (equivalent to $5.19 in 2022). [76] [5] By 1950 the minimum wage had risen to 75¢ per hour. [81] [5] The purchasing power of the federal minimum wage has fluctuated; it was highest in February 1968, when it was $1.60 per hour.
California's ballot measure, Proposition 32, would raise the state’s current minimum wage of $16 to $17 for the remainder of 2024 for employers with at least 26 employees, increasing to $18 per hour starting in January 2025. Without it, the state's minimum wage is set to increase to $16.50 per hour next year.
The minimum wage is going up in a record 23 states and 65 cities and counties in 2025. More areas are adopting $15 an hour - or higher - as pay floor
An effort to boost the state’s minimum wage to $12 by 2025 didn’t make it out of committee. ... California will have the highest minimum wage rate for any state at $15.50, up from $15 in 2022. ...