Hawaiʻi’s minimum wage workers will see their pay rise to $12 an hour beginning Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Hawaiʻi’s minimum wage will remain at $12 an hour until Jan. 1, 2024, when it will rise again to $14. It will then go up by $2 every other year until it reaches $18 per hour on Jan. 1, 2028.
This is the first increase in the minimum wage since 2018 when the minimum wage rate was set at $10.10 per hour. As of 2019, there were more than 88,000 workers in Hawaiʻi earning the minimum wage.
At the same time, the tip penalty (officially, the “tip credit”) will see corresponding increases as well.
“The purpose of the minimum wage law is to protect the health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers,” said DLIR Director Anne Perreira-Eustaquio. “The minimum wage rate is a floor designed to protect workers against unduly low pay.”
“When my coworkers and I found out that the minimum wage was to be raised, I could almost feel the weight lift off of their shoulders,” said Zanni Walker in a Raise Up Hawaiʻi Coalition press release. Walker who earns the state minimum wage said, “A majority of them are older people—many of whom work multiple jobs. Seeing how hard even the seniors have to work is very disheartening as they should be retired at their age. With this raise, I hope that people who rely on income from minimum wage jobs will begin to be able to live better off of it.”
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