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The minimum wage will go up to $14.75 in the Portland metro area and $12.50 in rural counties. Next year it will go up based on Consumer Price Index.
In 2024, the state minimum wage in Washington is $16.28 per hour — the highest in the country. Some cities in Washington have higher minimum wages. ... Oregon’s standard state minimum wage is ...
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.
An effort to gradually bump up the minimum wage to $9.75 in 2024 stagnated in the state legislature. ... Oregon: $13.50. Oregon’s minimum wage rose to $13.50 in the summer of 2022, and annual ...
The Raise the Wage Act of 2017, which was simultaneously introduced in the House of Representatives with 166 Democratic cosponsors, would raise the minimum wage to $9.25 per hour immediately, and then gradually increase it to $15 per hour by 2024, while simultaneously raising the minimum wage for tipped workers and phasing it out. [173]
The OCPP typically weighs in each year on indexing increases to the state's minimum wage. When an early estimate for the 2011 indexed minimum wage increase (approximately 10-cents) [15] was announced by state Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian in September 2010, the OCPP advocated the increase as a needed boost for the state's poor. The group also ...
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.
History of the US federal minimum wage. Lower line is nominal dollars. Top line is inflation-adjusted. [1] [2] The Raise the Wage Act is a proposed United States law that would increase the federal minimum wage to US$17. [3] [4] Versions of the bill have been introduced in each United States Congress since 2017.