Florida's hourly minimum wage is scheduled to be $12 starting at the end of next month and is projected to hit $15 an hour by 2026.
In November 2020, voters approved a measure that would make the Florida's minimum wage rise for both tipped and non-tipped employees by $1 each year through 2026, beginning at $8.65 on Jan. 1, 2021. By Sept. 30 of the same year, the minimum wage was raised to $10 and the schedule for the annual increase was law.
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Florida's minimum wage is currently $11 an hour for non-tipped employees and $7.98 an hour for tipped employees. Both of these will continue to increase by $1 until 2026.
The minimum wage rates for both tipped and non-tipped employees will rise on Sept. 30 each year until 2026.
The establishment of a minimum wage can be credited to former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt who pushed for its establishment with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. The FLSA banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents and capped the maximum workweek at 44 hours. Previous attempts to set a minimum wage were blocked by the Supreme Court in 1935.
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