Connecticut’s minimum wage will reach $15 an hour June 1, a rate that has been rising annually since October 2019 when it was $10.10 per hour for most workers. After hitting the $15 threshold next week, the minimum wage will be linked to an employment cost index starting next year so that the lowest-paid workers benefit from any general upward lift in wages.
“The money earned will be spent right back into our own economy and support local businesses,” Gov. Ned Lamont, who signed the annual increased into law in 2019, stated in a press release.
The initial increase through the measure signed by Lamont took wages to $11 annually, followed by $12 in 2020 and so on through this June.
The increase comes as state lawmakers continue to debate whether to put waiter jobs on par with others at the $15 level and while leaders have yet to show any push to follow the lead of New York and several other states and allow higher minimum wages in places where living costs are higher, like Fairfield County.
Raise wages for restaurant workers?
This spring, Connecticut lawmakers proposed taking a next step and eliminating the lower minimum wage that restaurants pay servers, which is staying at $6.38 an hour as of June. Under Connecticut law, restaurants are required to chip in more if tips do not bring servers’ wages to $15 an hour on any given night.
The head of the Connecticut Restaurant Association argued against the move during a March hearing, saying that a survey of some 200...
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