Current:Home > reviewsWashington state raises minimum wage to $16.28. See where your state lies. -AssetLink
Washington state raises minimum wage to $16.28. See where your state lies.
View
Date:2025-04-13 14:09:39
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! (662)
Related
- Eva Mendes Shares Message of Gratitude to Olympics for Keeping Her and Ryan Gosling's Kids Private
- Inkster native on a mission to preserve Detroit Jit
- How to watch Michigan vs. Alabama in Rose Bowl: Start time, channel, livestream
- More Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia despite rejection from locals
- RFK Jr. grilled again about moving to California while listing New York address on ballot petition
- China calls Taiwan presidential frontrunner ‘destroyer of peace’
- Erdogan lashes out at opposition for ‘exploiting’ dispute between football clubs and Saudi Arabia
- States set to enact new laws in 2024 on guns, fuzzy dice and taxes
- Blake Lively’s Inner Circle Shares Rare Insight on Her Life as a Mom to 4 Kids
- UFL (the XFL-USFL merger) aims to not join long line of failed start-up pro football leagues
Ranking
- Paige Bueckers vs. Hannah Hidalgo highlights women's basketball games to watch
- Horoscopes Today, December 29, 2023
- North Korea’s Kim says he’ll launch 3 more spy satellites and build more nuclear weapons in 2024
- The FAFSA for the 2024-25 academic year is arriving. Some big changes may impact your student's financial aid.
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- ‘Wonka’ ends the year No. 1 at the box office, 2023 sales reach $9 billion in post-pandemic best
- Penn State defense overwhelmed by Ole Miss tempo and ‘too many moving parts’ in Peach Bowl loss
- Music producers push for legal protections against AI: There's really no regulation
Recommendation
'Malcolm in the Middle’ to return with new episodes featuring Frankie Muniz
Astrologer Susan Miller Reveals Her 2024 Predictions for Each Zodiac Sign
Maurice Hines, tap-dancing icon and 'The Cotton Club' star, dies at 80
Jerry Jones, Jimmy Johnson finally get it right in setting beef aside for Cowboys' celebration
Beware of giant spiders: Thousands of tarantulas to emerge in 3 states for mating season
Sam Howell starting at QB days after benching by Commanders; Jacoby Brissett inactive
Pakistan election officials reject former prime minister Khan’s candidacy in parliamentary election
When is the 2024 Super Bowl? What fans should know about date, time, halftime performer