In addition to Congress, NFIB and its members advocate for small business interests in all 50 state capitals. State-level issues are highly significant even beyond the state’s borders because a new law passed in one state is often mimicked elsewhere in the country. In early 2023, state legislatures across the United States have addressed three key issues for small businesses: minimum wage, paid leave, and tax relief.
Minimum Wage
At the start of 2023, a number of states saw an increase in their minimum wage rates largely due to high inflation, increasing the minimum wage in states that index minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index. Other states have passed scheduled increases or ballot initiatives to raise their minimum wage.
California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and parts of New York have the highest minimum wage rate in the country at $15 per hour. Georgia lawmakers introduced a bill to increase the minimum wage rate from $5.15 per hour to $15 per hour by January 2024, with exceptions for some very small businesses as well as high school and college students.
While workers in more than half of the states saw an increase in minimum wage rates this year, state lawmakers continue to introduce proposals that would increase the minimum wage. Earlier this year, Georgia lawmakers introduced a bill to increase the minimum wage rate from $5.15 per hour to $15 per hour by 2024. Maryland lawmakers are...
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