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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 ordinance requires the wage to jump to $25 per hour on February 1, 2025, with steady increases to $30 per hour by July 1, 2028 — in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics hosted in Los Angeles.
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.
1 Jan 2025 Egypt: None; The minimum wage of public sector is LE 6,000 (US$118.4) per month [84]. The private sector (There are certain grace periods in certain industries such as tourism, retail, and clothing.) is LE 7,000 (US$138.1) per month [85]. 42 May 2025 El Salvador: The minimum wage was set by the government at US$304.17 monthly in 2018.
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.
A new city reports bolsters a proposal by some L.A. City Council members to raise the minimum wages of hotel and airport workers before the 2028 Olympics.
The minimum wage in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., will be $15.00 per hour in 2020. [57] [58] By July 1, 2021, the minimum wage in Chicago was $15.00, with Illinois eventually matching the rate statewide by 2025. [59] As of July 1, 2024, the minimum wage in Chicago is $16.20 per hour for non-tipped employees and $11.02 for tipped employees.
2009-2024. Minimum wage: $7.25. The minimum wage today is exactly $7 more than it was when the concept first revolutionized labor in 1938. It can buy more today than it could in those waning years ...