The minimum wage in Illinois has increased to $15 an hour as of Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the ...

Illinois will raise its ... The federal minimum wage has stayed at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009, — the longest period in history without a raise, according to the national coalition ...

Generating Everlit Embed With the calendar’s turn to 2025, a number of new laws and changes have taken effect, both across ...

As of January 2025, the minimum wage in Seattle is $20.76 per hour for any employer, regardless of size. In June 2014, Seattle made history when ... 35), Delaware ($15), Illinois ($15), Maryland ...

Twenty-one states and 48 local jurisdictions rang in the new year with an increase to the minimum wage on Jan. 1, according ...

Workers across 21 states welcomed the new year by seeing their hourly minimum wages rise. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his ...

Some 300 new state laws take effect Jan. 1 covering everything from road safety to artificial intelligence, most of them passed during a two-year legislative term that enters its final days when ...

Starting Jan. 1, 2025, three states — Delaware, Illinois, and Rhode Island — joined the group of states with a $15 minimum wage, thanks to ballot initiatives approved by voters and later ...

The Illinois Restaurant Association and some Chicago restaurant owners, as well as servers, have said the city’s new tipped minimum wage rate hurts them. They contend that restaurants will have ...

The statewide minimum wage will increase to $15 an ... two groups that have experienced persistent wage gaps. Illinois Chamber of Commerce President Lou Sandoval said that while some chamber ...

On January 1st, the minimum wage in Illinois increased from $14 to $15. For tipped workers, it went from $8.40 to $9.For ...