MINIMUM WAGE

Connecticut $10.10 Massachusetts $11

Connecticut $9, Delaware $8.25 Minnesota $9.50 West Virginia $8.75 2017 2018

Hawaii $7.75, Maryland $8 Massachusetts $9, Michigan $8.50 Minnesota $9, Rhode Island $9 Vermont $9.15, West Virginia $8 2016 Missouri $3.80 First year state set a minimum wage. Federal $4.25

2014

The 1961 Amendments extended coverage First time state’s minimum wage

2008

California, Massachusetts, the weekly wage minimums in 1972.

1992

Florida $6.40 First year the state set a minimum wage.

2015 Federal $3.80 1991 Washington $9.47 District of Columbia $9.50 1990 Oregon $4.75

Sources: CSG’s The Book of the States Volume 32 U.S. Department of Labor, Office of State Standards Programs Wage and Hour Division website

Hawaii $5.25

21 States/Federal $7.25

Congress sets first federal 1988 minimum wage at 25 cents an hour. The 1938 Act was applicable generally to Federal $4.75 Indiana, Kansas, Wyoming All had minimum wages lower employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce. 1996 than $2 and lower than federal minimum wage, $3.35. 1938 Federal $5.15

1961 When did the hourly 1997

Interstate Commerce: $1.15 Retail and Service: $1 minimum wage rise? Oregon $6 District of Columbia $6.15

primarily to employees in large retail and service enterprises as well as to local transit, The federal minimum wage 1998 construction and gasoline service station employees. has increased 29 times since 1938. Some states have raised their rates, often above the federal rate, 2010 Kansas $7.25 while others have kept matched the federal minimum wage; up from $2.65, set in 1991. wages at or below the 1956 federal rate. 2009 Federal $1 Federal $2.30

Federal $7.25 Federal $6.55 Federal $3.35 1976 1981 Federal $2.90 Georgia, Indiana $1.25

Federal $5.85 1980 1979 1978 2002 Washington—$8 or more 2007 Federal $3.10 Alaska $3.40 Federal $2.65 2003 Georgia $5.15 First time state’s minimum wage Arizona $6.75 2006 First year state set a minimum wage since Alaska $7.15

1994

matched the federal rate.