What Is the Minimum Wage By State in 2025?

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Minimum wage over time
State minimum wages in 2025
Election 2024: How minimum wage increases fared
- Increases the minimum wage to $15 per hour by July 2027. The current minimum wage is $11.73 per hour.
- Requires businesses with 15 employees or more to provide employees with sick leave. Employees have the ability to accrue up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year.
- Requires businesses with fewer than 15 employees to provide employees with sick leave. Employees have the ability to accrue up to 40 hours of paid sick leave per year.
- Prohibits employers from taking adverse action against an employee who refuses to attend employer-sponsored meetings regarding religious or political matters.
- 2025: Increase to 64% of the state minimum wage.
- 2026: Increase to 73% of the state minimum wage.
- 2027: 82% of the state minimum wage.
- 2028: Increase to 91% of the state minimum wage.
- 2029: Increase to 100% of the state minimum wage.
- Establishes a $13.75 per hour minimum wage by 2025, which would rise to $15 per hour by 2026. The current minimum wage in Missouri is $12.30 per hour.
- Requires employers to provide employees with one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
- Requires businesses with 15 or fewer employees to provide at least five paid sick days per year while businesses that employ more than 15 people must provide at least seven paid sick days per year.
- Businesses with at least 20 employees must provide up to seven paid sick days.
- Businesses with fewer than 20 employees must provide up to five paid sick days.
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Do all workers earn at least the minimum wage?
- Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments.
- Employees of certain small newspapers or newspaper delivery workers.
- Seamen employed on foreign vessels or employees engaged in fishing operations.
- Certain farmworkers.
- Casual babysitters.
- Companions to older people or the infirm.
- Executive, administrative and professional employees.
Do tipped workers earn the minimum wage?
What states are increasing minimum wages in 2025?
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia (adjusts July 1)
- Maine
- Minnesota
- Montana
- New Jersey
- New York
- Ohio
- Oregon (adjusts July 1)
- South Dakota.
- Vermont
- Washington