In January, the minimum wage in Vermont will increase by 49 cents, to $13.67 per hour. This will also impact the state’s tipped minimum wage — which is 50% of the full minimum wage. The wage rate for service — or tipped employees — will increase 56 cents to $6.84 per hour, according to a press release from the state Department of Labor.
Currently, the minimum hourly wage in Vermont is $13.18 and the hourly tipped minimum wage is $6.28 — surpassing the current federal minimums of $7.25 and $5.12 respectively, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
The minimum wage is the entry-level hourly wage paid to an employee by an employer; the tipped wage is the base wage for employees who earn tips. In Vermont, a tipped employee is anyone who receives more than $120 per month in tips.
The workers at the Ben & Jerry’s union “celebrate this change and are happy to see workers’ rights and fair wages taken into consideration,” said Rebeka Mendelsohn, co-organizer of Scoopers United and a labor organizer for Workers United in Vermont.
“We believe changes like this are a direct result of the labor movement and are continually impressed by the pressure we can put on officials and the subsequent positive change we can make in government collectively,” she said in an email.
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