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For anyone working a minimum wage job in this new year, they will be paid more in 22 states and in at least 40 cities and counties across the country than they were in 2023.
In 2013, Harrison introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage in Prince George's County to $11.50 an hour by 2016. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The bill passed and was signed into law with an effective date of 2017 on December 17, 2013.
Minimum wage increases in the past few years have helped Americans keep pace with annual inflation that reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in mid-2022 before gradually falling to 2.6% recently.
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.
Looking ahead: Indiana’s minimum-wage workers haven’t seen an increase since 2009, when the federal minimum wage hit $7.25. Though some lawmakers recently backed an increase to $10 by 2022 and ...
Future minimum wage increases pending Virginia General Assembly enactment: January 1, 2025: $13.50; January 1, 2026: $15.00; By October 1, 2026, the minimum wage will be tied to yearly inflation. Afterwards, the minimum wage will be re-adjusted by a Commonwealth Commissioner annually. Washington: $16.66 [310] $16.66 [310] $13.84 [310]
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 federal minimum wage has remained stuck at $7.25 since 2009, the longest period without an increase since the Fair Labor Standards Act first established a minimum wage in 1938.