Nearly two dozen states, cities and local municipalities will see some form of a minimum wage increase starting July 1.

“In my mind, I always thought that it made the most sense to compress that amount of time in my life. So at 17, I set the goal to retire early at 45, which I wound up hitting six years earlier ...

Updated March 15, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. to reflect further changes to the bill. State lawmakers are backing off their effort to lower the tipped minimum wage for restaurant servers, bartenders and ...

Since 2015, when the minimum wage law was passed, the total number of food and beverage businesses in the city has dropped by 12, to 2,384, per the state Department of Revenue.

Starting January 1, 2025, all businesses in Seattle, regardless of size, will be required to pay employees a minimum wage of $20.76 per hour. This new rate, announced on Thursday, marks an ...

DETROIT – Michigan restaurant workers had mixed reactions about changes to the state’s minimum wage rules for tipped workers and the affect that will have on tipping. Under the new ruling, the ...

SEATTLE — The city of Seattle's minimum wage will increase starting January 2025. The Seattle Office of Labor Standards (OLS) said an annual increase to the minimum wage is required by the ...

Under the court ruling, the current minimum wage of $10.33 an hour will be adjusted in 2025 to more than $12.50 per hour. The wage will rise further after that, eventually hitting about $15. In ...

This means for businesses who do not pay $2.72 per hour to an employee’s medical benefits or where employees earn at least $2.72 in tips per hour, the current minimum wage is $17.25 per hour.

The minimum wage for workers such as servers, is about $9 less than non-tipped workers. What a "yes" vote on ballot question 5 would change.

The minimum wage hit the $20 milestone in 2024 for the city’s largest employers, small businesses with 500 or fewer employees faced a minimum wage of $17.25 an hour, unless they contributed to ...