The minimum wage in Washington state will go up in 2024. The state's Department of Labor and Industries announced on Friday that the minimum wage will rise to $16.28 per hour, a 3.4% increase.

The state of Washington’s minimum wage will rise to $16.28 per hour in 2024, a 3.4% increase over 2023′s $15.74 an hour, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) announced ...

That wording doesn’t necessarily imply support for a large increase in the minimum wage. But the same poll found that 76% of Republicans and 91% of Democrats support boosting it to $12 an hour.

It was nostalgic to read Alan Blinder’s op-ed “Washington Can Give America a Raise” (Aug. 21) and responding letters by David ...

Washington, New York ... of low-wage jobs has spurred the federal government and 30 states to increase minimum wages,” said Michael Reich, economics professor at the University of California ...

A petition to raise the minimum wage in Burien has been declared legally insufficient after failing to collect enough valid ...

But a provocative new paper by the Seattle Minimum Wage Study Team at the University of Washington suggests that ... city-level minimum-wage increase. The researchers had unprecedented access ...

Washington, D.C. has the highest rate overall ... Despite efforts to raise the minimum wage, no bill has successfully passed both chambers of Congress. Proponents of raising minimum wages argue ...

This is the third post in a series about ballot measures to raise the minimum ... in the fight over minimum wage at the expense of media outlets in Arizona, Maine, and Washington.

Raising the minimum wage is one of the most popular ways to fight poverty. It’s also one of the worst. Opinion: Positive ...

A full-time worker must put in 104 hours per week at the state’s current minimum wage to afford a two-bedroom rental in Colorado.

If you're making minimum wage, your paycheck is about to get bigger again. Florida's minimum wage will be rising again this ...