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2025 King County, Washington Executive election; 2025 Seattle mayoral election; Unknown date: The 2 Line of Sound Transit's Link light rail system is expected to be extended east into Downtown Redmond by spring 2025. [11] Unknown date: The 2 Line is expected to be extended west across Lake Washington to Seattle via the Homer M. Hadley Memorial ...
Oct. 1—Every year, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries sets a new minimum wage. Beginning Jan. 1, Washington workers must be paid at least $16.66 per hour. Washington ...
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.
Washington state’s minimum wage will increase 54 cents to $16.28 an hour next year. The Washington Department of Labor and Industries made the announcement Friday, The Seattle Times reported.
The wage is adjusted based on changes to the Consumer Price Index
A 2018 University of Washington study which investigated the effects of Seattle's minimum wage increases (from $9.50 to $11 in 2015 and then to $13 in 2016) found that while the second wage increase caused hourly wages to grow by 3%, it also caused employers to cut employee hours by 6%, yielding an average decrease of $74 earned per month per ...
Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money—for example $7.25 per hour ($14,500 per year) under certain US state laws (or $2.13 for employees who receive tips, which is known as the tipped minimum wage), $16.28 per hour in the U.S. state of Washington, [29] or £11.44 ...
Thanks to a voter referendum in November 2020, Florida’s $12 minimum wage will increase to $13 on Sept. 30 and will rise by $1 on the same date each year until 2026, when it reaches $15 an hour.