Nearly half of U.S. states will ring in the new year with higher minimum wages, with 30, as well as the District of Columbia, now over the federal rate of $7.25, a rate that’s not changed for more than a decade.
In total, 25 states will see boosts to their minimum hourly pay requirement in 2022, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute and the National Conference of State Legislatures. Four states—Oregon, Florida, Nevada, and Connecticut—will phase in their increases later in the year.
Eight of those will be bumping their minimum based on the consumer price index, while other state rates are required to go up by a specific dollar amount enacted under state legislation, according to Landon Jacquinot, a policy analyst at the National Conference of State Legislatures. D.C. also is set to increase its minimum wage according to the consumer price index, but the amount hasn’t been announced.
Eight states—California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Virginia—are scheduled to raise their minimum wage by at least $1 at some point in 2022.
Delaware’s minimum wage will rise to $10.50 from $9.25 once the new year begins. The state became the 10th plus D.C. to enact a $15 minimum wage law earlier this summer, though that rate is being phased in over four years.
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