Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In California, the state minimum wage as of January 1, 2024 was $16 per hour. [6] [note 1] As of July 2024, California had the highest minimum wage of any state and was the highest in the country except for some part of New York (which also have a $16/hour minimum wage) and the District of Columbia (which has a minimum wage of $17.50/hour). [9]
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.
The federal minimum wage in the US hasn’t budged from the hourly rate of $7.25 in over 14 years.But 22 states and 40 cities increased their own minimum wages to ring in the New Year. As of Jan ...
About 1 million New Yorkers who stock store shelves and hold other low-wage jobs will get a pay boost in 2024. NY minimum wage rising to $15 upstate, $16 in NYC in 2024. It'll keep rising
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.
New York City's minimum wage for companies with 11 or more employees became $15.00 per hour on December 31, 2018. [196] On the same day, NYC's hourly minimum wage for companies with 10 or fewer employees became $13.50. [196] The minimum wage in Illinois will reach $15 per hour by 2025 with increases beginning in 2020. [197]
California is the second most expensive state in the U.S. (first place goes to Hawaii). The steep price-tag that comes with living in the Golden State is owed to a few factors including ...
California's ballot measure, Proposition 32, would raise the state’s current minimum wage of $16 to $17 for the remainder of 2024 for employers with at least 26 employees, increasing to $18 per hour starting in January 2025. Without it, the state's minimum wage is set to increase to $16.50 per hour next year.