Michigan’s minimum wage will increase in 2024 from $10.10 to $10.33 an hour, the state Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity announced Friday, Nov. 3.
Additionally, starting Jan. 1, tipped employees must be paid at least $3.93 an hour, up from $3.84, and base pay for 16- and 17-year-olds will rise from $8.59 to $8.78 an hour.
Michigan’s Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act of 2018 establishes an annual schedule of increases. There is no increase if unemployment, as determined by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is 8.5% or greater during the preceding calendar year.
The national unemployment rate was at 3.9% in October, the statistics bureau reported Friday, and Michigan’s rate was the same. It was up from 3.7% in August, but has been below 4% for most of the year.
The hourly increase for workers amounts to about 2.2%. Consumer prices, meanwhile, increased about 3.7% from September 2022 to September 2023, according to the statistics bureau.
As of September, 26 of 30 states and Washington, D.C., had higher minimum wages than Michigan, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Washington D.C.’s minimum wage was highest at $17 per hour. California’s was set at $15.50 and in Massachusetts, it was $15.
Fifteen states have a minimum wage equal to the federal government’s – $7.25 an hour – and five have no required minimum wage, according to January Department of Labor information.
The federal minimum wage has been unchanged since 2010. In states with laws,...
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