The minimum wage in Nebraska will increase from $9 to $15 an hour by 2026 and in Nevada from $10.50 to $12 an hour by 2024, after voters in both states approved Nov. 8 ballot measures.
Nebraskans approved Initiative 433 by a 58.5 to 41.5 percent margin, increasing their state’s minimum wage by ballot measure for the second time since 2014 when they endorsed raising it from $7.25 to $9 an hour by 2016.
Nevada voters adopted Question 2 on their midterm ballots by a 55.2 to 44.8 percent margin, also raising the state’s base hourly rate for the second time since 2006 by popular vote while doing away with the nation’s only two-tiered minimum wage system.
Voters in 16 states have approved 24 of 26 minimum-wage proposals since 1996, according to Ballotpedia, including 23 straight since 1998.
States where voters have done so twice are Arkansas (2014, 2018), Arizona (2006, 2016), Colorado (2006, 2016), Florida (2004, 2020), Washington (1998, 2016), Oregon (1996, 2002), and Nebraska (2014, 2022).
In Nevada, voters have actually approved three minimum wage ballot measures this century—in 2004 and 2006, and on Nov. 8. But the 2004-2006 votes were on one minimum wage measure, which had to be approved twice under state law, which requires proposed citizen-initiated constitutional amendments be endorsed by voters in consecutive elections.
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