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Oct. 1—Every year, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries sets a new minimum wage. Beginning Jan. 1, Washington workers must be paid at least $16.66 per hour. Washington ...
January 18: People's March in Seattle; May 7: Washington driver's licenses may no longer be used as proof of identity for commercial air travel, under the REAL ID Act [9] [10] August 13–17: 83rd World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle; November 4: elections 2025 King County, Washington Executive election; 2025 Seattle mayoral election
In 2025, the minimum wage for other workers in the state will be raised to $16.50. Here are the states that will boost their minimum wage at the first of the year, and how much workers will be paid:
January 1: Highest minimum wage laws in the country go into effect at both state and local levels Washington State minimum wage rises to $16.28 per hour and remains the highest state minimum wage in the United States throughout the year. [1] Seattle minimum wage rises to $19.97 per hour, the highest for a major U.S. city. [2] March 12: primaries
See minimum wage in the United States for much more info, including detailed state-by-state and city-by-city breakdown of the facts and numbers, and more info on US territories. Some of the sources list many more exceptions to the main rate in each state (both lower or higher than the statewide rate). [ 5 ]
With the increase, Washington continues to have the highest minimum wage of all states at $16.66, up 38 cents. Delaware will see the highest increase, from $13.25 to $15. Meanwhile, Minnesota has ...
The wage is adjusted based on changes to the Consumer Price Index
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 ...