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Florida Minimum Wage Workers Get A Pay Raise Today
January 1, 2018
Florida’s minimum wage increased to $8.25 an hour Monday, 15 cents higher than the previous rate.
Under a state constitutional amendment, passed by voters in 2004, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity adjusts the wage each year based on changes in a federal consumer price index. The wage applies to all Florida workers who are covered by the federal minimum wage, according to the Department of Economic Opportunity.
Since the passage of the amendment and the enactment of Florida’s minimum wage law in 2005, the state minimum wage has risen $2.10 an hour, or 34 percent, since the original wage was set at $6.15 in 2005.
The 15-cent increase for 2018 is the largest hourly increase since 2012, when the wage rose by 36 cents an hour, according to the Department of Economic Opportunity.
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10 Responses to “Florida Minimum Wage Workers Get A Pay Raise Today”
I think that if minimum wage was increased to $10 per hour it would encourage businesses to address customer service issues. I also feel it’s a shame that you can’t live on minimum wage. I’m talking about basics like rent and utilities. It’s hard out there for a lot of people.
My 16 year old daughter just got her 6 month pay raise from $8.10 to $8.30 per hour. So new employees at her job will start out making .05 cents less than she currently earns and in 6 months will earn .15 cents more then her even though she has worked more than twice as long as the new employee.
In regards to college tuition, there are numerous alternatives to student loans (grants, scholarships, work study programs, military gi bill, tuition installment plans, working through college at an affordable state or community college). Student loans are the “easy path” which has become the norm for a large majority of today’s youth.
@Madison
I’d be the first to help you better yourself and reward you when you do. Yet we all make choices in life that affect our life financially. For example, I know young single mothers who have no family support go through just two years of school working for $9 full time with a crappy vehicle breaking down, trying to utilize as many programs as they could, and grinding it out. They both make more than the county median for men. Of course one had kids with a military man, another with a good earner so they didn’t get bum child support checks. That helps.
Hey everybody isn’t as fortunate. That can pay my water bill
Sad thing is, there is a lot out there that are not worth $8.25/hour, but think they are worth $15.
Not everyone can make 10-15 dollars an hour, I’m a single mom with two children that has been down one heck of a long road. That 6 more dollars a week is 24 dollars a month that can buy my children diapers. I don’t know why the minimum wage bothers you but every thing else is getting more expensive so if the government decides to pay us “non-career” having civilians more money, then I am more than grateful!
I worked my way through college on minimum wage jobs. Today adjusted for inflation I would have made 14 dollars an hour. Tuition has risen faster than inflation so kids who want to go to school have one choice…..take out a student loan. Today student loans exceed all credit card debt. The minimum wage has to get back to what it once was, tuition needs to be lowered, and student loans should be limited. Our children without the ability to work their way through school have become indentured servants as they work a lifetime to pay off student loans.
Minimum wage in Georgia is $7.25… guess that there is always someone worse off.
need to put the resturant industry on minimum wage and get ride of tips
Wow, a whole $6 more per week. That’s just sad but for those who it really bothers, a minimum wage job isn’t meant as a career. It’s temporary or a stepping stone. If it bothers folks so much, spend as much effort doing something better with your life as complaining and you’ll be ok.