SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - Four years ago, Michigan voters approved a petition to raise the state's minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2022. But it's almost the end of 2022 and that hasn't happened due to changes made my legislators that same. However, minimum wage will still go up at the start of 2023 - and it could go higher later in the year.
According to the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, minimum wage will increase from $9.87 per hour to $10.10 per hour - an increase of $0.23 per hour worked versus the minimum wage in 2022.
However, that increase is only for adults who make minimum wage. Minors will a minimum wage increase to $8.59 ($0.20 more per hour) while tipped employees, primarily in the restaurant industry, will see an hour rate of $3.84 ($0.09 more). The training wage of $4.25 per hour for newly hired employees ages 16 to 19 for their first 90 days of employment remains unchanged.
It could have been $3 more per hour by 2023.
In 2018, the petition put together by One Fair Wage was approved that would have raised the state's minimum wage to $12 per hour by the start of 2022. It would also raise the minimum wag for tipped workers to 80% of the standard minimum wage in 2022, 90% in 2023 and ultimately match it in 2024.
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