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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 has required a minimum wage of $2.13 for tipped workers, with the expectation that wages plus tips total no less than $7.25 per hour, since September 1, 1991. [191] The employer must pay the difference if total income does not add up to $7.25 per hour. [192] Non-tipped $7.25
"To provide tax relief for small businesses, to protect jobs, to create opportunities, to increase the take home pay of workers, to amend the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 relating to the payment of wages to employees who use employer owned vehicles, and to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the minimum wage rate and to ...
In Maine, the minimum wage will increase to $14.65, rising 50 cents. The rise comes due to Maine law and a a 2016 citizens referendum, with the state required to make an annual adjustment based on ...
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.
The minimum wage, unchanged since 2009 ... Georgia’s minimum wage is officially $5.15 an hour, but most employers are required to pay at least $7.25 under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ...
Nearly half the states in the U.S. are set for minimum wage increases on Jan. 1, 2025, which will mean a pay hike for some 9.2 million workers, according to recent data. An analysis by The ...
People have campaigned for a $15 an hour minimum wage, because the real minimum wage has fallen by 43% compared to 1968. [112] In " tipped " jobs, some states still enable employers to take their workers' tips for between $2.13 and the $7.25 minimum wage per hour.
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, ... In 2006, it was perfectly legal to pay American workers the equivalent of $7.84 an hour in today's money, an unsurvivable wage for ...