Minimum Wage By State 2019
These are the changes by year that have been made to the washington state minimum wage since 1961.
Minimum wage by state 2019. This chart shows state minimum wage rates in effect as of jan. 1 2019 as well as future enacted increases. Nineteen states begin the new year with increased minimum. A growing number of cities including seattle are examining the costs and benefits of implementing citywide minimum wage laws.
Citywide minimum wage laws offer local. State state locality locality minwage minimum wage minwage lastinc most recent increase minwage upinc upcoming increases minwage indexing indexing. The current 2019 washington minimum wage is 1200. Washingtons minimum wage applies to workers in both agriculture and non agricultural jobs although 14 and 15.
Although there are some exceptions almost all employees in california must be paid the minimum wage as required by state law. Effective january 1 2017 the minimum. The minimum wage in the united states is set by us labor law and a range of state and local laws. Employers generally have to pay workers the highest minimum wage.
The division of labor standards and statistics has adopted colorado minimum wage order number 35 effective january 1 2019 through december 31 2019 to reflect the.