Pasadena enacted its own minimum wage in 2016 by city council ordinance. Mountain View updated its minimum wage law on November 10, 2015, by city council ordinance. South Dakota’s tipped minimum wage is set at 50% of the regular minimum wage. Nonprofit Professional Employees Union. The governor allowed the bill to go into effect in July 2017, thereby lowering the city’s tipped minimum wage back down to $3.85 until a statewide ballot measure raised the state’s tipped minimum wage to $4.30 in January 2019. Smaller businesses will be subject to the same minimum wage rates and raise schedule, delayed by one year (e.g., $14.25 in July 2020 and reaching $15.00 in July 2021). Portland’s ordinance also requires that employees be paid 1.5 times the minimum wage rate for work performed during an emergency declared by the state or city if that emergency applies to the employee’s geographical workplace. Beginning July 1, 2022, the larger-business minimum wage will apply to all businesses. $10.10 Minimum Wage $5.58, effective 1-1-2022 / $6.00, effective 1-1-2023 / Annual indexing beginning 1-1-2024. $12.85, effective 1-1-2022 / Annual indexing beginning 1-1-2023. The 2020 legislation that raised Vermont’s minimum wage also created a study group that will investigate the potential impacts of eliminating the lower minimum wage for tipped workers so that all workers are paid the regular minimum wage, regardless of tips. Annual increases of the smaller of 5% of the current minimum, or the August-to-August percentage change in the CPI-U, U.S. city average. The minimum wage as listed applies to businesses with 26 or more employees. Flagstaff enacted its own minimum wage by ballot measure in 2016. This credit will be gradually reduced (thereby raising the tipped minimum) until tipped workers at small businesses receive the full minimum wage by 2022. Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers, Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy • PREE, Economic Analysis and Research Network • EARN, $8.50, effective 7-1-2016* / $10.10, effective 7-1-2017 / Annual indexing beginning 7-1-2018, Annual increases based on “the increase, if any, in the cost of living.”. The Economic Policy Institute staff is unionized with the $12.00, effective 1-1-2022 / $13.00, effective 1-1-2023 / $14.00, effective 1-1-2024 / $15.00, effective 1-1-2025. Tipped employees must be paid 38% of the regular state minimum wage. Annual increases based on the percentage change in the CPI-U for the Anchorage metropolitan area. The federal minimum hourly wage is just $7.25 and Congress has not increased it since 2009. Small businesses (those with 10 employees or fewer) have a minimum wage of $13.50. $5.55, effective 1-1-2018* / $6.15, effective 1-1-2019. San Diego enacted its own minimum wage in 2016 by city council ordinance. Research and Ideas for Shared Prosperity. Board of Directors The Economic Policy Institute Minimum Wage Tracker . State law establishes separate minimum wage rates for the Portland Urban Growth Boundary area and designated non-urban counties. Annual increases based on the percentage change in the CPI-W for the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County metropolitan area, beginning July 1, 2022. *The Missouri state legislature passed a law in September 2015 preempting local governments from adopting minimum wages above the state’s minimum wage. Annual increases based on the July-to-July percentage change in the CPI-W, St. Louis metropolitan area, rounded to nearest 5 cents, beginning 1-1-2019. Same as the regular minimum wage. $10.00, effective 9-30-2021 / $11.00, effective 9-30-2022 / $12.00, effective 9-30-2023 / $13.00, effective 9-30-2024 / $14.00, effective 9-30-2025 / $15.00, effective 9-30-2026 / Annual indexing beginning 1-1-2027. [ii] After 2025, adjust the minimum wage each year to keep pace with growth in the median wage, a measure of wages for typical workers. *On March 30, 2017, Iowa’s governor signed HF 295, a bill that nullified Polk County’s minimum wage ordinance, and preempted any local government in Iowa from establishing a minimum wage higher than the state minimum wage. Newsletter Same as regular minimum wage. The minimum wage as listed applies to businesses with 100 or more employees. The Chicago Minimum Wage Ordinance raises the city’s minimum wage annually by the rate of inflation, with a cap of 2.5%. The minimum wage as listed applies to businesses with 26 or more employees. Wage Act Would Benefit U.S. Workers and Their Families, Economic Policy Institute, Jan. 26, 2021. Beginning January 1, 2023, the state minimum wage of $15 will apply to small employers. Texas’s minimum wage is set equal to the federal minimum wage by statute. Critics argue that raising the minimum wage wouldn't help the economic recovery. Kentucky’s tipped minimum wage is set equal to the federal tipped minimum wage by statute. Annual increases based on the percentage change in the CPI, rounded to the nearest 5 cents. Beginning 10-1-2019, workers ages 17 and younger may be paid $10.10 per hour or 85% of the state minimum wage, whichever is greater, for the first 90 days of their employment. Amusement parks and recreational establishments are only required to pay 85% of the regular minimum wage. $3.84, effective 1-1-2022* / $3.93, effective 1-1-2023 / $4.01, effective 1-1-2024 / $4.10, effective 1-1-2025 / $4.20, effective 1-1-2026 / $4.29, effective 1-1-2027 / $4.39, effective 1-1-2028 / $4.48, effective 1-1-2029 / $4.58, effective 1-1-2030. $13.00, effective 8-1-2021 / $14.00, effective 7-1-2022 / $15.00, effective 6-1-2023 / Annual indexing beginning 1-1-2024. Annual increases based on the calendar year percentage change in the CPI-U for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metropolitan area. Businesses with fewer than 26 employees are subject to a minimum wage equal to $1 less than the large business minimum wage through 2023. *Tacoma’s city minimum wage was superseded by the state minimum wage on 1-1-2020. Chicago’s tipped minimum wage is set at 60% of the regular minimum wage. Policy choices have tilted the playing field toward the rich and corporations. Santa Clara updated its minimum wage in 2017 by city council ordinance. Economic Policy Institute, Washington, District of Columbia. SeaTac’s minimum wage applies only to hospitality and transportation workers within the city. Los Angeles enacted its own minimum wage in 2015 by city council ordinance. $15.00, effective 1-1-2022 / Annual indexing beginning 1-1-2023. However, in October 2018, the D.C. City Council overruled the voter-approved measure, returning the tipped minimum wage to the original increase schedule in the 2016 ordinance. $2.80, effective 1-1-2022 / $3.00, effective 1-1-2023. For large employers (more than 500 employees), the regular minimum wage applies to tipped workers. The Kansas City tipped minimum wage is set at 50% of the regular state minimum wage. The Sunnyvale City Council updated its minimum wage ordinance in 2016. Kentucky’s minimum wage is set at the higher of $7.25 or the current federal minimum wage. *, Kansas City enacted its own minimum wage in 2015 by city ordinance.*. Santa Monica’s minimum wage schedule applies to businesses with at least 26 employees. *Prince George’s County’s minimum wage is superseded by the higher state minimum wage in 2021. Large employers are not allowed to credit tips against the city’s minimum wage. The law applies to adult and minor employees who work two or more hours per week for a business that is subject to the Belmont Business License Tax OR that maintains a facility in Belmont. Annual increases based on the percentage change (August-to-August) in the CPI-W, U.S. city average, rounded to the nearest 5 cents. The St. Paul minimum wage ordinance establishes separate minimum wages and increase schedules for businesses of four different sizes: macro (more than 10,000 employees), large (101−10,000 employees), small (6−100 employees), and micro (five or fewer employees). Annual increases based on the percentage change in the CPI-U for the Midwest region for the preceding calendar year. Exploring how race, ethnicity, and class intersect to affect economic outcomes in the United States. Los Angeles County enacted its own minimum wage in 2015 by county ordinance. Firms providing health insurance to their employees may pay a wage $1.00 less than the specified minimum wage. Annual increases based on the calendar year percentage change in the CPI-W for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metropolitan area. If the minimum wage had increased at the same pace as productivity growth over the last 70 years, it would be over $22 an hour today. *On March 30, 2017, Iowa’s governor signed HF 295, a bill that nullified Polk County’s minimum wage ordinance, and preempted any local government in Iowa from establishing any minimum wage higher than the state minimum wage. $15.87, effective 1-1-2022 / Annual indexing beginning 1-1-2023. Raising the Delaware minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would raise wages for nearly 120,000 workers and strengthen the state’s economic recovery, Testimony of David Cooper in support of SB 15 before the Delaware Senate Labor Committee, Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift the pay of 32 million workers, A demographic breakdown of affected workers and the impact on poverty, wages, and inequality, Our deeply broken labor market needs a higher minimum wage, EPI testimony for the Senate Budget Committee, The Romney–Cotton minimum wage proposal leaves 27 million workers without a pay increase, CBO analysis confirms that a $15 minimum wage raises earnings of low-wage workers, reduces inequality, and has significant and direct fiscal effects, Large progressive redistribution of income caused by higher minimum wage leads to significant and cross-cutting fiscal effects, EPI applauds the introduction of the Raise the Wage Act, 32 million U.S. workers would benefit from a $15 federal minimum wage, How the Raise the Wage Act would benefit U.S. workers and their families, Twenty states raised their minimum wages on New Year’s Day, Voters chose more than just the president, A review of important state ballot initiative outcomes, What’s needed to lift up 140 million poor and low-income people further devastated by the pandemic, State interference in local policymaking prevents people of color, women, and low-income workers from making ends meet in the South, Top five Valentine’s Day gifts ideas for U.S. workers, Nothing spells ‘romance’ like a fair wage and quality jobs, A look back at the House’s legislative victories that benefit working people, Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), EPI comments on the proposed delay of effective date for the Independent Contractor Rule, EPI testimony on increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour, Economists in support of a federal minimum wage of $15 by 2025, A $15 minimum wage would have significant and direct effects on the federal budget, Raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 will restore bargaining power to workers during the recovery from the pandemic, Now is still a good time to raise the minimum wage, On EITC Awareness Day, remember that the EITC and minimum wage work together to raise incomes, The EITC and minimum wage work together to reduce poverty and raise incomes, EPI comments on Colorado Overtime & Minimum Pay Standards Order (COMPS) Order #36, Nearly 7 million workers will start the new year with higher wages, EPI comments on the Department of Labor’s proposed rule regarding tip regulations, EPI comments on the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry’s proposal clarifying the definitions of executive, administrative, and professional salaried workers who are exempt from receiving minimum wage and overtime pay, How California’s AB5 protects workers from misclassification, Low-wage workers are suffering from a decline in the real value of the federal minimum wage, Low-wage workers will see huge gains from minimum wage hike, CBO finds, Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy • PREE, Economic Analysis and Research Network • EARN. Portland’s mininum wage ordinance is superseded by the higher state minimum wage in 2021. However, the state legislature subsequently passed a new preemption law to undo the St. Louis increase. Annual increases based on the July-to-July percentage change in the CPI-W, U.S. city average, rounded to nearest 5 cents, beginning 1-1-2024. Newsletter *The Missouri state legislature passed a law in September 2015 preempting local governments from adopting minimum wages above the state’s minimum wage. The minimum wage in 2014 was 24 percent below its 1968 level despite the fact that U.S. productivity more than Low wages hurt all workers and are particularly harmful to Black workers and other workers of color, especially women of color, who make up a disproportionate share of workers who are severely underpaid. Seattle enacted its own tipped wage in 2014 by city council ordinance. Portland UGB’s rate is then set to $1.25 greater than the state’s base rate. $9.25, effective 1-1-2018* / $10.25, effective 1-1-2019. Once fully phased in, this translates into an annual pay increase of about $3,300 for the average affected year-round worker. Annual increases based on the lesser of 5.0% or the annual percentage change in the CPI. All workers must be paid at least the state minimum wage regardless of health care or child care benefits. The minimum wage will not increase when Chicago’s unemployment rate is greater than 8.5% for the preceding year. As of 12-31-2018, the fast-food minimum wage in New York City is the same as the overall city minimum wage of $15. © 2021 Economic Policy Institute Authoritative, up-to-date data on the living standards of American workers. Annual increases based on the August-to-August percentage change in the CPI-W, U.S. city average. 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