Many cities and counties now have minimum wages higher than their state-mandated minimum. As of August 2024, Tukwila, Washington, had the highest minimum wage at $20.29 per hour for large employers, which is almost 25 percent higher than Washington’s $16.28 state minimum wage and almost 180...
For an average store in California, these changes translated into four extra workers per week and five fewer hours per worker per week — which meant that the total wage compensation of an average minimum wage worker in a California store actually fell by 13.6%.” The decrease in hours also...