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Two states have minimum wages below that number, and five don’t have a minimum wage. Wolf continuously has pushed to raise the Keystone State’s minimum wage to $12 an hour and eliminate the $2 ...
Printable version; Page information; ... State Minimum Wage Laws. Wage and Hour Division. ... Pennsylvania 7.25 Rhode Island 14.00
(The Center Square) – Twenty-one states across the US are raising the minimum wage in 2025. Pennsylvania Democrats would like to see the commonwealth soon join their ranks. Sen. Art Haywood, D ...
Looking ahead: Though Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has been stagnant since 2009, ... Tipped workers, who make 38% of the regular minimum wage by law, saw their wage rise to $3.84.
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 earliest minimum wage laws in the United States were state laws focused on women and children. [25] These laws were struck down by the Supreme Court between 1923 and 1937. [25] The first federal minimum wage law, which exempted large parts of the workforce, was enacted in 1938 and set rates that became obsolete during World War II. [25]
The effective nationwide minimum wage (the wage that the average minimum-wage worker earns) was $11.80 in May 2019; this was the highest it had been since at least 1994, the earliest year for which effective-minimum-wage data are available.
Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor employees. [4] The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum wage , currently $7.25 but higher in 29 states and D.C., and discourages working weeks over 40 hours through time-and-a-half ...