Minimal wage simply elevated in 23 states and DC: NPR

An activist holds a banner demanding a $15 an hour minimal wage and suggestions for restaurant employees within the U.S. Capitol Triangle of Properties in February.

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An activist holds a banner demanding a $15 an hour minimal wage and suggestions for restaurant employees within the U.S. Capitol Triangle of Properties in February.

Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Pictures

Minimal wage employees in 23 states and the District of Columbia obtained a elevate for the New 12 months holidays, based on the Financial Coverage Institute.

Largest achieve: Nebraska

Voters determined in November to extend the state’s minimal wage to $15 an hour by 2026 in increments of $1.50 a yr, Nebraska Public Media experiences. That brings the state to $10.50 an hour this yr.

Smallest enhance: Michigan

The primary state elevate, efficient earlier within the yr, raised the state’s minimal wage to $10.10, a mere $0.23, based on Michigan Radio. However there’s the potential for a second hike that would elevate the state’s minimal wage to $13.03. Rick Dodgers of the Michigan Public Radio Community has the small print.

Highest minimal wage: Washington state and Washington, DC.

In November, voters within the District of Columbia determined to part out the tip minimal wage over the subsequent few years to match $16.10 an hour for district employees. As DCist’s Amanda Michelle Gomez explains, “The measure’s success additionally got here 4 years after a near-identical initiative was handed and subsequently rejected by the D.C. Board.”

In the meantime, in Washington State, not solely did the state minimal wage rise $1.25 to $15.74 an hour, however the metropolis of Seattle raised the minimal wage for small and enormous employers by $0.75 and $1.42, based on KUOW. {dollars}, respectively.

States the place the minimal wage is pegged to the price of dwelling noticed a much bigger soar than in years previous.

Because of latest excessive inflation, the rise within the minimal wage in cost-of-living states has been bigger than in earlier years, based on the Financial Coverage Institute. These embody: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Vermont, and Washington State.

Plus:

— The minimal wage is predicted to rise to greater than $13 an hour throughout New England in 2023, apart from New Hampshire, the place it has remained at $7.25 for greater than a decade.

— The Metropolis Council of Columbus, Ohio is elevating the minimal wage for workers of corporations receiving financial incentives from the town to $20 an hour.

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