Twenty-two states will raise their minimum wage in 2026, while 20 states will remain at the $7.25 federal minimum wage.

Minimum wage increase 2026: Minimum wages are rising across the United States in 2026. Many states and cities have already increased pay, with more hikes planned later in the year. Several ...

A total of 19 states increased their minimums in 2026, each of them landing between $10 an hour and $18 an hour. Nationwide, at least 30 states as well as Washington, D.C., have minimum wages that ...

Here's a list of states where workers are getting a pay bump.

In the Great Lakes region, Michigan ranks third, behind $16 an hour in New York and $15 an hour in Illinois. Indiana and Wisconsin have the lowest minimum wages, at $7.25 an hour. Hover/click on each ...

Supporters of Missouri Proposition A, which raises the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, celebrate the measure passing on Nov. 5 at the Marriott St. Louis Grand in downtown St. Louis. Businesses ...

Show Me State employers have to pay their employees twice as much as Kansas ones.

Four New England states are seeing a pay boost this year but Massachusetts isn’t one of them. Here's how the Bay State stacks ...

A service industry worker who recently moved to Texas doesn't see a higher minimum wage as the solution.