Rhode Island's minimum wage, set at $12.25 for 2022, will be increasing by about a dollar a year until 2025, when it will reach $15 an hour.
The increase in the minimum wage is the result of legislation from 2021, that brought gradual increases over four years. In 2021, the minimum wage was $11.50 and in 2022, it rose to $12.25 an hour. Starting on Jan. 1, 2023, it will increase to $13 an hour.
Organized labor and progressive groups pushed for a faster increase in the pay for the state's lowest-paid workers while some business groups lobbied for smaller increases or none at all.
At the end of the 2022 legislative session, there was a move to increase the minimum wage to $19 an hour, which was blocked.
Rhode Island is not alone in gradually increasing the minimum wage toward $15 an hour, as many states have responded to a growing movement to increase the minimum wage. In California, for example, the minimum wage has been gradually increasing toward $15 an hour since 2017. There, it will reach $15 an hour in 2023.
Nationally, Democratic members of Congress proposed raising the federal minimum hourly wage last year, advocating for today’s $7.25 an hour to increase to $15 by 2025.
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