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Seattle's $15 minimum wage -- USA's highest -- challenged San Francisco has the nation's highest hourly minimum wage at $10.74. Voters there will decide in November whether to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour in 2018. The minimum wage in Washington state is $9.32 an hour.
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Richmond May Soon Have California's Highest Minimum Wage Next year, the city's current $8 an hour minimum wage would increase to $9.60. In 2016, minimum wage would increase to $11.52 an hour. The new $12.30 an hour minimum wage would take effect in 2017, with cost of living increases after that.
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10 states with the highest minimum wages The lowest-paid workers in Connecticut got about a 5% raise to $9.60 at the start of 2016, under a law that's gradually raising Connecticut's minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. Increasing the minimum wage is not just good for workers, it's also good for business, Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a statement.
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The 10 states where the minimum wage is highest Top 10 states for the minimum wage. Sorbis / Shutterstock.com. Nineteen states welcomed 2017 by raising the minimum wage by as much as $1.95 an hour. They’re among the roughly 30 states that have set a floor for wages above the federal minimum, which has remained at $7.25 an hour since 2009.
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This Map Shows Which Cities Have the Highest Minimum Wages May 21, 2015. 1  Los Angeles became the latest and largest city to raise its minimum wage, voting May 19 to up it from $9 an hour to $15 by 2020. (The federal minimum is $7.25.) The nation's second largest city follows Seattle and San Francisco, which moved to gradually increase their minimum wages to $15 in 2014. Here are the other major cities that have passed or proposed a higher wage floor.
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- Related story: Seattle minimum-wage fight: Does $15 an hour make economic sense? Maria L. La Ganga The Seattle City Council is poised to raise the municipal minimum wage Monday to $15 an hour, making it the highest in the country.eattle raises minimum wage to $15 an hour, highest in U.S. Seattle minimum wage battle. Elaine Thompson / Associated Press. Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant, right, looks on as Stephanie Sucasaca holds up a fist as Sawant had just done while interpreting Sawant's remarks into Spanish on May Day.
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- The minimum wage in the United States is a network of federal, state, and local laws. Employers generally must pay workers the highest minimum wage prescribed by federal, state, or summer local law. As of July 2016, the federal government mandates a nationwide minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. As of October 2016, there are 29 states with a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum. From 2014 to 2015, nine states increased their minimum wage levels through automatic adjustments, while increases in 11 other states occurred through referendum or legislative action.
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14 states raising minimum wage in 2016, including New York NEW YORK — The once-unthinkable $15 minimum wage became a burgeoning reality in 2015. Following the examples set by San Francisco and Seattle, 14 cities, counties and state governments approved a hike to $15 in their local minimum hourly pay, according to the National Employment Law Project.
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Vermont minimum wage will rise to $10.50 an hour Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia currently have minimum wages above the federal minimum. Another 19 have minimum wages equal to the $7.25 federal rate. A total of 38 states considered legislation that would have addressed the lowest-wage workers.
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17 Numbers That Will Make You Realize Just How Pathetic The Federal Minimum Wage Is The number of months between each of the last three minimum wage increases, to $5.85 in July 2007, then to $6.55 in July 2008, and finally to the current $7.25 minimum in July 2009. The number of states -- not including Washington, D.C. -- that have raised the minimum wage above the federal rate. The highest state minimum wage is in Washington state, at $9.32 an hour -- still below the proposed federal minimum.
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Eight states with the highest minimum wages The cost of living in six of the eight states with a minimum wage over $8 an hour is higher than the nationwide cost of living. In Connecticut, where the minimum wage is currently $8.25, the cost of living is the fourth highest in the nation.
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Seattle raises minimum wage to $15 an hour Seattle City Council voted Monday to raise the minimum wage to a nation's-highest $15 per hour. Washington already has the highest state minimum wage at 9.32 per hour.
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Minimum wage in the United States The minimum wage in the United States is a network of federal, state, and local laws. Employers generally must pay workers the highest minimum wage prescribed by federal, state, or summer local law. As of July 2016, the federal government mandates a nationwide minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. As of October 2016, there are 29 states with a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum.
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Vermont to raise minimum wage to $10.50, highest of any U.S. state Vermont to raise minimum wage to $10.50, highest of any U.S. state. BOSTON Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin on Monday signed a law that will raise the state's minimum wage to $10.50 an hour by 2018, higher than any other U.S. state. The move to raise the entry-level salary from $8.73 comes in a year when Democrats, including Shumlin, have sought to make worker pay an election issue.
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The Cities with the Highest (and Lowest) Real Minimum Wage Today, the city's minimum wage is $8.75. Unlike other cities that have recently added their own minimum wage, such as Seattle and San Francisco, the cost of living in Albuquerque is not especially high. In fact, the cost of living in Albuquerque is about 7% lower than the national average.
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MA Minimum Wage is $9.00/hour January 1, 2015 Massachusetts now has the highest enacted state minimum wage set for $11.00 on January 1, 2017. At Massachusetts’ current minimum wage rate of $8.00, this translates to just $16,640 annually for a full-time worker.
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States with the Most Minimum-Wage Workers An increase in the federal minimum wage would have far greater effects in some states than others. View new data to see where workers are earning at or below the federal rate, which has been frozen at $7.25 since 2009. President Obama reignited the minimum-wage issue in his State of the Union address last month, calling on lawmakers to raise the federal wage that has remained frozen at $7.25 an hour since 2009. In some states, a federal minimum-wage hike could boost pay for hundreds of thousands of workers.
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Eight states with the highest minimum wages A state's cost of living may influence its minimum wage. The cost of living in six of the eight states with a minimum wage over $8 an hour is higher than the nationwide cost of living. In Connecticut, where the minimum wage is currently $8.25, the cost of living is the fourth highest in the nation.
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Oregonâs âHistoricâ Minimum-Wage Increase Her Senate Bill 1532 also gives Oregon the nation’s current highest political statewide minimum wage. Basically, the state’s current minimum wage is $9.25; however, beginning July 1, 2016, it will rise steadily each year through at least June 30, 2023. How much the rate will increase will depend on where an employer is located within the state.
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- As of 2015, the minimum wage is $9.25 per hour. Oregon’s minimum wage is adjusted annually by the increase in the U.S. Consumer Price Index. Washington has the highest minimum wage rate of any state at $9.47 per hour. California’s minimum wage is $9.00 per hour, and Nevada’s minimum wage is $8.25 per hour.
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Massachusetts minimum wage increases to $11 an hour today Nineteen states will raise the minimum wage today. Massachusetts will be tied with New York and Washington state for the second-highest minimum wage in the country, after Washington, D.C., which has an $11.50 minimum wage. An estimated 500,000 Massachusetts workers will benefit from the wage hike, according to advocates for the law.
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- The minimum wage in the United States is a network of federal, state, and local laws. Employers generally must pay workers the highest minimum wage prescribed by federal, state, and local law. As of July 2016, the federal government mandates a nationwide minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
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Do other countries have a higher minimum wage than the United States? The meme says that countries with a higher minimum wage than the United States’ $7.25 an hour include Denmark at $21, Australia at $15.81, Germany at $11 and France at $12.35. The figure for Denmark is questionable because the country has no single minimum wage.
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Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage, Highest In The U.S. Comment. Seattle will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour over the coming years under a deal brokered by Mayor Ed Murray and blessed by labor and business groups alike, city leaders announced Thursday afternoon.
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- 2016 Highlights. 1  Voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington approved November ballot measures to raise their respective minimum wages. 2  New York became the second state to pass a new law that would raise the minimum wage in New York City to $15 per hour by the end of 2018.
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Californiaâs minimum wage rises again on Jan. 1. Hereâs how much | The Sacramento Bee With its increase, California is tied with Massachusetts for the third-highest minimum wage among states and the nation’s capital, according to data from the Labor Law Center. The highest wage belongs to Washington, D.C., where minimum-wage workers make $13.25. Washington state follows at $11.50.