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The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50 on January 1.
Following the enactment of the Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Act (Law 47 of 2021) there will be a yearly increase of the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.50 per hour by July 1, 2024. Minimum wage increased to $8.50 on January 1, 2022, [330] with subsequent increases for all employees covered by the FLSA as follows: [331] $9.50 on July 1, 2023
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 state minimum wage in Arizona increased from $13.85 per hour to $14.35 per hour on Jan. 1, 2024. Tipped employees in Arizona have a minimum wage of $11.35 per hour.
However, the city of Portland will increase its minimum wage to $13, $14 and then $15 at the beginning of 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively. And that is not the only caveat to state minimum wage laws.
As of 2024, three cantons have official minimum salaries: CHF 20.6 (US$22.64) per hour in the canton of Jura; CHF 21.09 (US$23.18) per hour in the canton of Neuchâtel, CHF 24.32 (US$26.73) in the canton of Geneva; [219] the rest of the country has no minimum wage. [220]
Nevada increases its minimum wage to $12 an hour from $11.25 on July 1. Oregon's current minimum wage of $14.20 will increase on June 30, based on updated consumer price index figures.
In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act established it at $0.25 an hour ($5.19 in 2022 dollars). Its purchasing power peaked in 1968 at $1.60 ($13.46 in 2022 dollars). [1] The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 has set the minimum wage at $7.25 per hour since 2009. The real value of the federal minimum wage in 2022 dollars has decreased by 46% since ...