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The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50 on January 1.
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 ...
Florida: The minimum wage will increase from its current $11 to $12 on Sept. 30, 2023. Missouri: The minimum wage will increase from its current $11.15 to $12 on Jan. 1, 2023. New Mexico: The ...
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 minimum wage increased to $14.65 and tipped minimum wage to $7.33 on January 1, 2025. The tipped rate is half of the current state minimum wage. [245] Rockland: Starting on January 1, 2025, for employers with more than 25 employees, the minimum wage will be $15.50. The minimum wage in future years be adjusted annually based on cost of ...
Also in 1937, New York passed a minimum wage law protecting women and minors. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a national minimum wage standard and a forty hour work week, and in this same year, an amendment to the New York State Constitution established a "Bill of Rights" for working people. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ...
Of those states, Washington has the highest minimum wage at $15.74 an hour. Twenty-seven states will see a minimum wage increase this year. Marijuana, Minimum Wage: New Laws Going into Effect in 2023
In 1989, Senator Edward M. Kennedy introduced a bill to increase the minimum wage from $3.35 per hour to $4.55 per hour in stages. [51] Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole supported increasing the minimum wage to $4.25 per hour along with allowing a minimum wage of $3.35 an hour for new employees' first ninety days of employment for an employer. [51]