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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.
Since the start of these protests, a number of states and cities have increased their minimum wage. In 2014, Connecticut for instance passed legislation to raise the minimum wage from $8.70 to $10.10 per hour by 2017, making it one of about six states at the time to aim at or above $10.00 per hour. [162]
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The state’s minimum wage rises by 25 cents on Jan. 1, going to $10.70 an hour to account for inflation. The current Ohio minimum wage for tipped employees is $5.25 per hour and $10.45 for ...
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Last month, President Barack Obama included in his State of the Union address a plea to Congress to raise the hourly minimum wage to $10.10. Some people support the idea.
In 2006, Ohio voters approved a minimum wage increase tied to inflation. The minimum wage applies to businesses with annual gross receipts of more than $394,000 per year. The minimum wage is $7.25 ...
In 2014, supporters of minimum wage cited a study that found that job creation within the United States is faster in states that raised their minimum wages. [113] [139] [140] In 2014, supporters of minimum wage cited news organizations who reported the state with the highest minimum-wage garnered more job creation than the rest of the United ...
The minimum wage is back in the news lately after President Obama pledged to raise it to $10.10 an hour for federal contractors in his 2014 State of the Union address, and it's become yet another ...