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Work For Minimum Wage? You Got A Pay Raise
January 3, 2012
If you work for minimum wage in Florida, you received a 36-cent pay raise on Sunday.
Minimum wage in the state jumped from $7.31 to $7.67 an hour on January 1. That’s good news for about 253,000 Floridians at the bottom the pay scale, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Experts say that many businesses will also bump up other wager earners to keep their pay scales in line.
Tip earning employees also received a pay raise of 36-cents per hour, with a wage increase to $4.65.
It was part of a 2004 measure approved by voters that raises the minimum wage in the state in each year at a rate that is tied to inflation. The federal minimum wage will remain at $7.25.
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2 Responses to “Work For Minimum Wage? You Got A Pay Raise”
And those who had been making minimum wage, who had earned a raise to put their pay above minimum wage, are back on the bottom.
Back when I was a teenager, minimum wage was $4.25 (I think). After 3 months, I got a $.25 per hour raise and then another $.50 at 6 months, bringing it up to $5 an hour. The next month, minimum wage was raised to $5.15 and I was back to making minimum wage again. I felt like I’d never gotten anything.
Now the price of everything else goes up!