Current:Home > StocksWashington state raises minimum wage to $16.28. See where your state lies. -WealthX
Washington state raises minimum wage to $16.28. See where your state lies.
View
Date:2025-04-12 02:39:28
The minimum wage in Washington state will go up in 2024.
The state's Department of Labor and Industries announced on Friday that the minimum wage will rise to $16.28 per hour, a 3.4% increase.
In 1998, the voters in Washington state granted the department the power to make adjustments to the minimum wage based on inflation. The department calculated the raise based on Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.
Cities, such as Seattle and SeaTac, can set a higher minimum wage.
The department also announced that the minimum ride share services must pay drivers will increase as well.
For trips in Seattle drivers will earn, "66 cents per passenger platform minute and $1.55 per passenger platform mile, or $5.81, whichever is greater," and "38 cents per passenger platform minute and $1.31 per passenger platform mile, or $3.37, whichever is greater," according to the release.
This raise comes on the heels of the California legislature passing a bill to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers.
Fast food, higher wages:California fast food workers will earn at least $20 per hour. How's that minimum wage compare?
What is the minimum wage in my state?
Minimum wages per hour in each state, according to the Department of Labor:
- Alabama: $7.25, no minimum wage required
- Alaska: $10.85
- Arizona: $13.85
- Arkansas: $11.00
- California: $15.50
- Colorado: $13.65
- Connecticut: $15.00
- Delaware: $11.75
- Florida: $11.00
- Georgia: $5.15
- Hawaii: $12.00
- Idaho: $7.25
- Illinois: $13.00
- Indiana: $7.25
- Iowa: $7.25
- Kansas: $7.25
- Kentucky: $7.25
- Louisiana: $7.25, no minimum wage required
- Maine: $13.80
- Maryland: $13.25 for workplaces with more than 15 employees/ $12.80 for workers with less than 15 employees
- Massachusetts: $15.00
- Michigan: $10.10
- Minnesota: $10.59 ($8.63 for small employers with annual revenue less than $500,000)
- Mississippi: $7.25, no minimum wage required
- Missouri: $12.00
- Montana: $9.95 ($4.00 for businesses not covered by FLSA with annual salaries of $110,000 or less)
- Nebraska: $10.50
- Nevada: $11.25 ($10.25 if the employee is offered health benefits)
- New Hampshire: $7.25
- New Jersey: $14.13 ($12.93 per hour for seasonal and small employers)
- New Mexico: $12.00
- New York: $14.20 ($15.00 for New York City, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties)
- North Carolina: $7.25
- North Dakota: $7.25
- Ohio: $10.10 ($7.25 for employers with annual receipts under $342,000)
- Oklahoma: $7.25
- Oregon: $14.20
- Pennsylvania: $7.25
- Rhode Island: $13.00
- South Carolina: $7.25, no minimum wage required
- South Dakota: $10.80
- Tennessee: $7.25, no minimum wage required
- Texas: $7.25
- Utah: $7.25
- Vermont: $13.18
- Virginia: $12.00
- Washington: $15.74
- Washington D.C.: $17.00
- West Virginia: $8.75
- Wisconsin: $7.25
- Wyoming: $5.15
veryGood! (199)
Related
- 'No Good Deed': Who's the killer in the Netflix comedy? And will there be a Season 2?
- A man killed by Phoenix police in a shootout was a suspect in a fatal shooting hours earlier
- Paul Skenes nearly untouchable: Phenom tosses six no-hit innings, beats Cubs in second MLB start
- One person not frequently seen at Trump's trial: Alvin Bragg, the D.A. who brought the case
- Current, future North Carolina governor’s challenge of power
- Last student who helped integrate the University of North Carolina’s undergraduate body has died
- Pennsylvania school district’s decision to cut song from student concert raises concerns
- After three decades, a skeleton found in a Wisconsin chimney has been identified
- Brianna LaPaglia Reveals The Meaning Behind Her "Chickenfry" Nickname
- Kelly Stafford, Wife of NFL's Matthew Stanford, Weighs in on Harrison Butker Controversy
Ranking
- Man can't find second winning lottery ticket, sues over $394 million jackpot, lawsuit says
- Bridgerton Season 3 vs. the books: Differences in Colin and Penelope's love story
- Some older Frigidaire and Kenmore ranges pose risk of fires and burn injuries, Electrolux warns
- When does 'Bridgerton' Season 3 Part 2 come out? Release date, cast, how to watch new episodes
- Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order
- Kelly Stafford, Wife of NFL's Matthew Stanford, Weighs in on Harrison Butker Controversy
- Widespread power outages from deadly Houston storm raise new risk: hot weather
- Riley Strain’s Family Accepts His College Diploma at Emotional Graduation
Recommendation
Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats
Caitlin Clark isn't instantly dominating WNBA. That's not surprising. She wasn't going to.
Attorney John Eastman pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona’s fake elector case
Seize the Grey wins the Preakness for D. Wayne Lukas and ends Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid
How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast
Pennsylvania school district’s decision to cut song from student concert raises concerns
Turning back the clock to 1995: Pacers force Game 7 vs. Knicks at Madison Square Garden
Radar detects long-lost river in Egypt, possibly solving ancient pyramid mystery