2022 is set to be a more expensive year for many Americans with inflation at the highest level in nearly 40 years. Along with higher prices, Americans in 25 states are due for minimum wage hikes this year.
California will have the highest statewide minimum wage in the U.S. in 2022, at $15 an hour — a $1 an hour increase from 2021.
However, the California law only applies to employers who have 26 or more employees. Otherwise, the state’s minimum wage is $14 an hour for employers with less than 26 employees, but it is set to rise to $15 an hour by 2023.
Additionally, a $15 an hour minimum wage went into effect on Jan. 1 in three New York counties: Westchester, Suffolk and Nassau. A $15 minimum wage for all workers in New York City went into effect two years ago.
The remaining counties in New York are required to pay workers at least $13.20 an hour, a $0.70 increase from last year. That also went into effect on Jan. 1.
Washington, D.C. is the city with the highest minimum wage at $15.20; that law went into effect in 2021.
The largest effective minimum wage increase this year occurred in Virginia where it increased from $9.50 an hour to $11 an hour on Jan. 1.
Eight states (Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Washington, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio and South Dakota) raised the minimum wage across their state based on cost-of-living increases reported in the Consumer Price Index.
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