Minimum Wage
The minimum wage is the minimum hourly wage an employer can pay an employee for work.
Minimum wage. The national minimum wage and national living wage rates. Age apprentices previous years. A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers. Equivalently it is the price floor below which workers may not sell their labor.
This chart shows state minimum wage rates in effect as of jan. 1 2019 as well as future enacted increases. Nineteen states begin the new year with increased minimum. Here is a list of the current federal minimum wage and the rates for each state for 2019 as well as future scheduled increases in the minimum wage.
The minimum wage in the united states is set by us labor law and a range of state and local laws. Employers generally have to pay workers the highest minimum wage.