The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. Overall prices have gone up roughly 47% since then.

In 2025, the minimum wage will increase in 23 states. Find out what is happening in your state in our interactive graphics.

In a landmark move, 48 cities and counties across the United States are poised to increase their minimum wages starting ...

Minimum wage hikes traditionally have been aimed at helping low-paid workers afford the basics, such as food, medicine and housing. But a growing number of states and localities are raising their ...

Get ready for a change in 2025! The states with the highest minimum wages will be different. Thanks to legislation and ballot measures passed, workers in over a dozen states could see their ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - While California voters rejected a ballot measure that would have raised the state's minimum wage to $18 by 2026, several cities across the Bay Area are increasing the minimum ...

New York is set to raise its minimum wage in 2025, continuing its trend of providing workers with one of the highest wage floors in the United States. The increase, which will take effect on ...

Twenty-three states will raise their minimum wages in 2025 - a move some experts warn could drive up prices. On January 1, Illinois, Delaware and Rhode Island - along with 48 cities and ...

Artists are generally thought of as either starving in a garret (La Bohème and all that) or jammy millionaires producing ...

One of the most popular economic fallacies of our time is the belief that the absence of a minimum wage would lead to limitless exploitation of employees in the economy. Minimum wage legislation ...

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has reportedly dropped its wage demand to 19 per cent over four years, CUPW negotiator Jim Gallant told CTV News. The union initially called for a ...

Most workers who voiced frustration about their pay — 80 percent — said it was because their wages hadn’t kept up with the higher costs of living, and more than half said they didn’t earn ...