Arizona’s hourly minimum wage on Jan. 1 increased $0.75, which puts it at $12.80 after accounting for the previous year’s cost-of-living increase.
The increase is in accordance with Proposition 206, which Arizona voters passed in 2016 and mandates the minimum rate that employers are allowed to pay in the state. Under the law, the minimum wage is adjusted on an annual basis in line with “the percentage increase as of August of the immediately preceding year over the level as of August of the previous year of the consumer price index…with the amount of the minimum wage increase rounded to the nearest multiple of five cents.”
Individual Arizona cities and towns have also passed minimum laws. Tucson is set to push its minimum wage up to $15 per hour on January 1, 2025, with the multiyear phase-in beginning at $13 per hour as of April. Flagstaff voters in 2016 approved a city-level wage law that ensures the city’s hourly minimum wage will always be higher than the state minimum wage. The Flagstaff minimum wage for 2022 is $15.50.
C.J. Boyd, organizer of the Tucson Fight for $15, said, “We’re glad that in 2016, the statewide minimum wage that passed included an adjustment for cost of living, inflation but we know it’s going up that much because the inflation this year has been pretty historic. We haven’t seen this level of inflation since 1982.”
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