ILLINOIS — As 2022 gives way to the new year, some workers across the state will see an increase in pay beginning next week.
The state’s minimum wage rate is set to increase to $13 on Sunday, and those workers across the state making less than that will see an automatic hourly jump to the new rate. Thanks to state legislation, Illinois is slowly moving toward a minimum wage of $15 per hour, which will take place on Jan. 1, 2025, after the rate of minimum wage jumps to $14 in 2024.
The current rate of pay for minimum wage workers across Illinois is $12.
The minimum wage increase is expected to affect an estimated 510,400 workers in Illinois, or about 9 percent of the state's 5.7 million wage-earning workers, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. Illinois workers affected by the minimum wage hike will see an average increase in their annual earnings of about $697, with an average change in their hourly wage of about 50 cents.
An estimated 381,400 children live in households affected by the wage hikes. They represent 13.2 percent of the children living in Illinois.
The federal rate of minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour since 2009 and as of this fall, 15 states have remained at the federal level compared to states like Illinois, where the minimum wage jumped to $12 per hour on Jan. 1 of this year.
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