With all this talk about the new minimum wage we thought we’d take a look at the state minimum wage rates from across the country.
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ALABAMA none
ALASKA $7.15
ARIZONA $6.75
ARKANSAS $6.25
CALIFORNIA $7.50
COLORADO $6.85
CONNECTICUT $7.65
DELAWARE $6.65
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA $7.00
FLORIDA $6.67
GEORGIA $5.15
HAWAII $7.25
IDAHO $5.85
ILLINOIS $7.50
INDIANA $5.85
IOWA $6.20
KANSAS $2.65
KENTUCKY $5.85
LOUISIANA none
MAINE $6.75
MARYLAND $6.15
MASSACHUSETTS $7.50
MICHIGAN $7.15
MINNESOTA $6.15
MISSISSIPPI none
MISSOURI $6.50
MONTANA $6.15
NEBRASKA $5.85
NEVADA $6.33
NEW HAMPSHIRE $5.85
NEW JERSEY $7.15
NEW MEXICO $5.15
NEW YORK $7.15
NORTH CAROLINA $6.15
NORTH DAKOTA $5.85
OHIO $6.85
OKLAHOMA $5.85
OREGON $7.80
PENNSYLVANIA $6.25
RHODE ISLAND $7.40
SOUTH CAROLINA none
SOUTH DAKOTA $5.85
TENNESSEE none
TEXAS $5.85
UTAH $5.15
VERMONT $7.53
VIRGINIA $5.85
WASHINGTON $7.93
WEST VIRGINIA $6.55
WISCONSIN $6.50
WYOMING $5.15
The moral of this story is that if you’re going to work a McJob, do it in Washington where you’ll be paid $7.93. Say, what’s the cost of living like in Washington?
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@AlteredBeast:
The cost of living is high in Alaska. In southeast Alaska and Anchorage, housing prices are high (in Anchorage, because there are a lot of people, in southeast because there is little useable land, and what land there is has to be BLASTED level to build on it). In the places where land and housing is cheap, everything else is expensive. Expect to pay (last I checked) about 1 1/2 times as much for produce as most places in the lower 48, including a lot of expensive ones. A gallon of milk has been in the 4 dollar range or higher since the mid-late 90s.
And that’s only for places on the road network. You go out in the boonies, and I hope you like hunting and fishing, because if you don’t you’re going to be spending a goddamn lot of money on food.
I don’t know about prices for EVERYTHING in Washington, but housing is maybe slightly better than the popular parts of California, and food is a damn sight cheaper than Alaska.
It’s funny all this about Alaska and Washington. I lived in Fairbanks, AK for four years and the wage will barely cover food. We get to shop on post and a gallon of milk is $4.83. I have no idea how people could afford to buy food if they couldn’t shop on post (ie: in the Army) because a freaking bell pepper was $2.80 at Safeway!!! The houses are all crappy. The rentals are all crappy. About $1000 for a 2 bed 2 bath. Now, we have moved to Washington in the last month. The wage here is barely sustaining us. It’s nice because we don’t HAVE to buy our food on post because the prices are comparable to those on the outside (like Albertson’s) but our condo costs as much as a mansion in Tennessee.
@Thrust
$40 per hour to be exact,
“Mayor George Darden won’t be facing state civil or criminal charges for hiring illegal aliens to work on an urban revitalization project in his village, but Department of Labor officials informed him yesterday that the $10 an hour he paid 10 men doesn’t comply with the state’s prevailing wage law and taxpayers will have to pay the illegals the difference of about $30 an hour.”
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@jetfxr27:
Damn, I need to become an illegal alien.
@drjayphd: Weston and Woodbury.
I love New Haven more than Hartford.
@jurijuri: You’re right; I live in Southern Illinois.
So. IL ftw!
Thats weird. I live in Alabama and there’s definenly a minimum wage…Atleast the laws for it have always been posted all over the break room at all three of my previous jobs.
@jetfxr27: I love the smell of propaganda in the morning.
It is pretty sad that they have to tell employers how little they can legally pay someone. I would be embarassed to pay people so little.
@Musician78:
I would be embarrassed to not have skills or knowledge that made me worth more.
@frogpelt: Yeah, even I am singing it. Its a wonderful song. I think everyones’ rights should be protected, employers as well as employees.
There are some employers who make people work and in the end dont pay at all and there are employees who just intend to form unions for their own benefits.
I mean to say that there should be proper laws for both the parties and proper implementation too!
@ MARKWM: I agree with that as well.
Dude our minimum wage here in Ontario is 8 or something and due to rise to 10. Come get a McJob HERE.
@snowferret: And the taxes would be…?
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The list should be updated because there have been some changes. For
example, Washington’s minimum wage is $8.03 not $7.93.