22 states are raising minimum wage in 2024, highest now $16.28 per hour

22 states are raising minimum wage in 2024, highest now $16.28 per hour

Minimum-wage workers in 22 states will get a pay raise in 2024 with seven states crossing the $15-per-hour threshold.

Citing information from GovDocs, USA Today listed the following states with minimum wage changes on Jan. 1, 2024:

Alaska – Increasing from $10.85 to $11.73

Arizona – Increasing from $13.85 to $14.35

California – Increasing from $15.50 to $16

Colorado – Increasing from $13.65 to $14.42

Connecticut – Increasing from $15 to $15.69

Delaware – Increasing from $11.75 to $13.25

Hawaii – Increasing from $12 to $14

Illinois – Increasing from $13 to $14

Maine – Increasing from $13.80 to $14.15

Maryland – Increasing to $15

Michigan – Increasing from $10.10 to $10.33

Minnesota – Increasing from $10.59 to $10.85 for large employers, and $8.63 to $8.85 for other employees

Missouri – Increasing from $12 to $12.30

Montana – Increasing from $9.95 to $10.30

Nebraska – Increasing from $10.50 to $12

New Jersey – Increasing from $14.13 to $15.13

New York – Increasing from $14.20 to $15

Ohio – Increasing from $10.10 to $10.45

Rhode Island – Increasing from $13 to $14

South Dakota – Increasing to $11.20

Vermont – Increasing from $13.18 to $13.67

Washington – Increasing from $15.74 to $16.28

Florida’s minimum wage will also be increasing in 2024 but not until September when it will go from $12 to $13 per hour.

Cities and regions can also have higher minimum wages with some places in California and Washington topping a required $19 per hour.

Five states – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee – have no minimum wage law so the federal figure of $7.25 per hour is used. Federal minimum wage has not been changed in 14 years since it was boosted from $6.55 per hour in 2009.

Georgia and Wyoming have state minimum wages lower than the federal minimum wage at $5.15 an hour, USA Today reports, but many employers are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act and must pay the federal minimum wage.

According to employment site Zippia, there are at least 1.6 million Americans – slightly less than 2% of all hourly paid workers – who earn less or equal to the federal minimum wage as of 2023. Of those, 44% are under the age of 25.