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In 2013, Elrich was the lead sponsor of legislation to increase the county's minimum wage, which raised it to $11.50 per hour. [20] Elrich twice was the lead sponsor of legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Montgomery County. In January 2017, a bill passed in the Council and was vetoed by then County Executive Ike Legget. [21]
A 2018 University of Washington study which investigated the effects of Seattle's minimum wage increases (from $9.50 to $11 in 2015 and then to $13 in 2016) found that while the second wage increase caused hourly wages to grow by 3%, it also caused employers to cut employee hours by 6%, yielding an average decrease of $74 earned per month per ...
During her 2018 House of Delegates campaign, Charkoudian said that she supported raising the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour. During debate on a bill to do so, she unsuccessfully challenged amendments to delay the state's wage increase and to exempt certain workers from a $15 wage. [39] [40]
[125] [126] [127] She voted against a minimum wage increase in the state Senate. [127] In response to a Congressional Budget Office report projecting that increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would lift 900,000 people out of poverty but cost 500,000 people their jobs, Ernst said, "government-mandated wage increases are not the solution."
New York's minimum wage will increase to $16 in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County in January, following a series of increases across the state since 2016.. The minimum wage will ...
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.
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]
At a special called session, the Montgomery County Commissioners set a higher property tax rate and made $9.2 in budget cuts. Montgomery Co. Commissioners approve property tax increase, budget ...