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The first federal minimum wage was created as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but declared unconstitutional. In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act established it at $0.25 an hour ($5.19 in 2022 dollars).
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.
The Minimum Wage Fairness Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to: (1) $8.20 an hour beginning on the first day of the sixth month after the enactment of this Act, (2) $9.15 an hour beginning one year after the date of such initial increase, (3) $10.10 an hour beginning ...
Initiative 82 would gradually increase the tipped minimum hourly wage from the $5.05 [7] in 2021 to at least $17.50, [8] matching the non-tipped minimum wage in 2027. [9] Although some DC restaurants voluntarily have stopped accepting tips and instead have begun paying their servers at or above minimum wage in the aftermath of Initiative 77 ...
Workers under 16 years old can be paid 85% of the adult minimum wage in 2023, or $13.38 an hour. On the other end of the spectrum, here are the states set to pay the lowest minimum wages in 2023:
While the federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 per hour, many states have their own rates. More than half of U.S. states have announced adjustments to their minimum wages in 2023 to help residents...
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 federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009. That was 13 years ago. That’s the longest the minimum wage has remained stagnant since the Fair Labor Standards Act first set it at 25 ...