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.

Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for the seventh year in a row, starting in October, to $25 per hour. That equates ...

This isn’t speculation, it’s rooted in the data my University of Washington ... That’s an increase comparable to what smaller businesses might be facing if the minimum wage phase-in ...

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

It was nostalgic to read Alan Blinder’s op-ed “Washington Can Give America a ... late-20th-century arguments about the effect of minimum wages. I taught economics for more than 40 years.

Seattle, for example, passed a minimum wage increase in 2014 that University of Washington researchers determined led to a 9% reduction in hours, which cost workers a loss of $125 per month.

A $15 minimum hourly wage would increase wages for these millions of workers, reduce wage gaps, boost the economy, help families and more. Maids and housekeeping cleaners are one sector that’s ...