Among the flurry of Executive Orders signed by President Trump since he took office is an March 14, 2025 Executive Order rescinding 18 prior executive orders and actions, including Executive Order 14026, a Biden-era order increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors to $17.75. Now that Executive Order 14026 has been rescinded, many federal contractors have been left wondering what the current minimum wage is for their employees.
Recent History on Federal Contractor Minimum Wage
The status of the federal contractor minimum wage has been in flux for some time. In 2014, President Obama issued Executive Order 13658, which provided for a $10.10 per hour federal contractor minimum wage that would subsequently increase on an annual basis for inflation. Years later, on April 27, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14026, which increased the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15.00 per hour, to be adjusted periodically for inflation. Executive Order 14026 built upon the prior Obama-era order, but President Biden’s order provided broader coverage, higher thresholds and superseded the Obama-era order to the extent it was inconsistent with the provisions in President Biden’s order.
Shortly after President Biden issued Executive Order 14026, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued regulations implementing the order and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council amended the federal procurement regulations accordingly. Per the order and those regulations, as of...
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