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Workers across 21 states welcomed the new year by seeing their hourly minimum wages rise.. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his ...
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]
That is almost seven times the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour and more than three times the California minimum wage of $16 per hour. “I know what worker productivity means,” Lee said ...
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. [59] [60] By July 1, 2021, the minimum wage in Chicago was $15.00, with Illinois eventually matching the rate statewide by 2025. [61] 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.
In February 2021, the Congressional Budget Office released a report on the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 which estimated that incrementally raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would benefit 17 million workers, but would also reduce employment by 1.4 million people.
The $16.04 an hour minimum wage in Los Angeles is another factor making it harder to manufacture domestically.
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.