25 states across the country will be raising the minimum wage in 2020. Find out which states are getting an increase.
The federal minimum hourly wage is just $7.25. Congress has not increased it since 2009—15 years ago and counting. Low wages hurt all workers and are particularly harmful to Black workers and other workers of color—especially women—who make up a disproportionate share of workers who are sev...
In April, California introduced a new minimum wage law that requires fast food workers to be paid $20 per hour. What has happened since? Well, restaurants and businesses have responded as one would expect they would: by raising prices and announcing hiring freezes. Though beset ...
Not all workers are sold on the idea of raising the tipped wage. A little over two years ago, Steve Marandola, 50, moved from New Jersey to Bellingham, Washington, where the tipped wage is now $11 an hour. Marandola has worked in the restaurant industry for 30 years and currently works...
France also meets the 60 percent target for the minimum to median wage ratio, as do Bulgaria, Portugal, and Slovenia. The latter country is also the sole EU member meeting the 50 percent target for the minimum wage relative to the mean wage ratio. All other countries are relatively far ...
Currently, the Everett minimum wage is $16.28 an hour, but in January, it will follow Seattle’s, rising to $20.24. Sciarrotta still thinks of himself as a worker, not an owner. He remembers the last time the coffee shop raised prices, nearly three years ago, upping the cost ...
I don’t think it’s a fair argument to say minimum wage workers would be able to work 8 hours every day. Regardless, assuming they do get full time work (standard 40 hour work week), they will earn $15,080 before taxes ($7.25 per hour for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, ...
federalminimumwagewas July‚ 24 2009. It was set to $7.25 and we haven’t seen a change since. “The average cost-of-living increase over the past decade is about 26 percent. This means that an item purchased ten years ago would have cost about 26 percent less than it costs to ...
As you can see, salaries have gone up A LOT in Romania, being four times higher than they were just 8 years ago. IMPORTANT! Employers in Romania can only keep you on minimum wage fortwo years max. After that, they’re legally required to bump up your pay. It’s a move meant to im...
2 years ago on March 15, 2023 By Marcus Lu Graphics/Design: Sam Parker Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Email Mapped: Minimum Wage Around the World The purpose of a minimum wage is to establish a baseline income level for workers in a given jurisdiction. Ideally it’s enough to ...