Effective January 1, 2025, Washington’s state minimum wage will increase to $16.66 per hour, a 2.35% increase over 2024. In ...

Workers would need to earn quadruple the federal minimum wage in order to comfortably afford rent in these cities, per Clever ...

This Washington Examiner series, Direct Democracy, will take a forensic look at several of these items. Part 1 was on the abortion measures in 10 states. Part 2 is about minimum wage measures in ...

Both would require large employers — defined as those with more than 500 employees in Washington — to pay a minimum hourly wage of $20.24 beginning July 1. For employers with between 15 and 500 ...

Beginning on January 1, 2025, the minimum wage in Washington will go up to $16.66 per hour, up 2.35% from 2024. In addition to the statewide minimum, various cities and counties have a dizzying ...

Washington, DC, has the highest minimum wage at $17.50 an hour. Even with Democrats historically leading the charge for a higher federal minimum, it's a proposition that often gets bipartisan ...

The current form of winner-take-all late-stage vulture capitalism has led to unprecedented wealth concentration and income disparity. The post-pandemic increase in wages in no way can compensate for ...

Massachusetts voters have rejected a measure that would have gradually increased the minimum wage of tipped workers to match ...

It’s been six months since minimum wage for workers at large fast food chains in California went from $16 to $20 an hour. Restaurant operators opposed the new law, claiming it would force them ...

Today, the tipped rate is less than one-third of the $7.25 federal full minimum wage. Advertisement Article continues below this ad As of October 2024, 30 states and Washington, D.C., had instituted ...