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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.
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.
For instance, the minimum wage in New York City is $16 an hour, $1 higher than in the state. As of 2022, about 1.23 million workers in the U.S. made at or below the federal minimum wage, according ...
The General Assembly’s Fair Wage Act of 2023 increased Maryland’s state minimum wage from $13.25 to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2024. Some counties in Maryland have higher minimum wages depending ...
The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39) creates a minimum wage across the United Kingdom. [2] From 1 April 2024, the minimum wage is £11.44 per hour for people aged 21 and over, £8.60 for 18- to 20-year-olds, and £6.40 for 16- to 17-year-olds and apprentices aged under 19 or in the first year of their apprenticeship. [3]
[76] [77] [81] [82] The real value of the federal minimum wage in 2022 dollars has decreased by 46% since its inflation-adjusted peak in February 1968. The minimum wage would be $13.46 in 2022 dollars if its real value had remained at the 1968 level. [76] [77] See chart to right. From January 1981 to April 1990, the minimum wage was frozen at ...
An effort to gradually bump up the minimum wage to $9.75 in 2024 stagnated in the state legislature. ... up from $15 in 2022. It raised its minimum wage to $14 in 2021 from $13, the result of a ...
The wages board did not set a universal minimum wage; rather it set basic wages for 6 industries that were considered to pay low wages. [7] First enacted as a four-year experiment, the wages board was renewed in 1900 and made permanent in 1904; by that time it covered 150 different industries. [ 7 ]