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 ...

Where workers are getting a raise: Minimum wage set to rise in 23 states next year as $15 an hour, and beyond, picks up steam The amendment was intended to get minimum wages more in line with ...

Learn more:Minimum wage to climb to $17 in NY. Why so few New Yorkers are pleased with that deal. “The walkable downtowns and vibrant communities New Yorkers want are made up of small ...

That’s why the wage just went up. Agricultural workers are guided by a separate minimum wage timetable that will guarantee them incremental raises through 2030. Employees who work on a farm for ...

A business owner in West Seattle lamented that the closure of her business due to the rising minimum wage means the loss ... why business owners are 'fed up.' The Mexican restaurant chain Rubio's ...

Minimum wage workers are getting a raise in 2025, but the 2% cost-of-living bump may not go very far. This year’s increase to $15.49 makes New Jersey’s minimum the sixth-highest minimum wage ...

Rhode Island's minimum wage goes up to $15 an hour in 2025, up from $14 an hour in the last of several staged increases that lawmakers approved in 2021. When the law passed in 2021, Rhode Island's ...

China's minimum wage has undergone a drastic rise over the ... In California they raised it up to a very high number. And your restaurants are going out of business all over the place.

Studies have shown a higher minimum wage can help local economies reduce turnover and improve work ethic, all as the city works to catch up with high living costs. "What about the guy who was ...

How minimum wage works in unincorporated King County ... Higher minimum wages, he said, will cause the price of goods to go up, in turn affecting customers. “If we’re gonna have the highest ...

Employers of tipped employees must pay their employees minimum wage, but they can count the tips the employees receive toward it up to the maximum of $3.02, the allowable Fair Labor Standards Act ...