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Basic Minimum Rate (per hour) is $7.25 for employers with ten or more full time employees at any one location or employers with annual gross sales over $100,000 irrespective of number of full time employees. All other employers: Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $2.00. Unless the employers are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act, in which case ...
The first table contains a list of U.S. states and territories by annual median income. The second table contains a list of U.S. states and territories by annual mean wage. Average wage in the United States was $69,392 in 2020. [ 1] Median income per person in the U.S. was $42,800 in 2019. [ 2]
In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act established the federal minimum wage. Businesses were required to pay employees at least $0.25 per hour (the equivalent of $4.74 in 2023 dollars). Congress ...
Income in theUnited States of America. This is a list of U.S. states, territories, and Washington, D.C. by income. Data is given according to the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates, except for the American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for which the data comes from 2010, as ACS does ...
Arizona: $14.35. The state minimum wage in Arizona increased from $13.85 per hour to $14.35 per hour on Jan. 1, 2024. Tipped employees in Arizona have a minimum wage of $11.35 per hour. The Fair ...
Idaho: $7.25. Idaho kicks off a long line of states that have officially adopted the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25. Tipped workers make a base of $3.35 an hour, better than the federal ...
Following protests due to low wages and poor work conditions, Amazon raised the minimum wage for all its employees to $15.00 per hour in October 2018. [177] The company subsequently became a major lobbyist for a $15.00 per hour minimum wage, which some observed as a way for the company to force competitors to increase their worker costs as well ...
Another state with a higher percentage of low-wage workers is West Virginia. Here, 35% of the workforce earns under $17 per hour. That means 238,000 workers. West Virginia’s cost of living is ...