Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz held a press conference in Willimantic to announce the first automatic increase of Connecticut’s minimum wage after the wage reached $15 per hour in June of this year.
Bysiewicz announced that under the minimum wage law passed in 2019, Connecticut’s minimum wage rises automatically each year in line with the employment cost index, a measure of inflation. The indexing of the minimum wage means the state’s minimum wage will rise to $15.69 per hour in January of 2024, making Connecticut one of the states with the highest minimum wages in the country.
“In January [June] of this year, we made the fifth and final increase before the minimum wage is indexed to the employment cost index, increasing Connecticut’s minimum wage,” Bysiewicz said. “And that increase will go from fifteen dollars an hour to fifteen dollars and sixty-nine cents. Ladies and gentlemen, that is the applause line.”
“This is a fair and gradual increase for workers that ensure that as our economy grows, the minimum wage grows with it and that’s good for everyone,” Bysiewicz said, noting that “women and people of color tend to be our minimum wage workers.”
Bysiewicz said they believe the increase will affect 10 percent of Connecticut workers – 163,151 employees. Many employers have begun paying higher rates as they scramble for employees in the post-pandemic economy.
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