Minimum wage by state in the United States
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Updated: January 2025
The average state minimum wage in 2025 is $11.18, up from $10.69 in 2024, $10.47 in 2023, and $9.85 in 2022.
The top five highest 2024 statewide minimum wages were set to be as follows:
$17.50 in Washington, D.C.[1]; $16.66 in Washington; $16.50 in California, $16.35 in Connecticut; and $15.50 in New York.
The lowest minimum wages based on state law were $5.15 in Georgia and Wyoming, which were lower than the federal government's requirement. When the state rate is lower than the federal rate, the federal minimum wage of $7.25 supersedes state law for most types of employees. Twenty (20) states used the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25.
The map below shows state minimum wages in 2025.
See also
- Minimum wage on the ballot
- Minimum wage by state in the United States
- Minimum wage increases in 2025
- Minimum wage increases in 2024
- Minimum wage increases in 2023
- Minimum wage increases in 2022
- Minimum wage increases in 2021
- Minimum wage increases in 2020
- Minimum wage increases in 2019
- Minimum wage increases in 2018
Additional reading
Reports
Neutral
Support
- Center for Economic and Policy Research, "Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment?" February 2013
- Economic Policy Institute, "Raising America’s Pay: Why It’s Our Central Economic Policy Challenge," June 4, 2014
- Economic Policy Institute, "Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $10.10 Would Life Wages for Millions and Provide a Modest Economic Boost," December 19, 2013
- Economic Policy Institute, "To Work With Dignity: The Unfinished March Toward a Decent Minimum Wage," August 26, 2013
- Economic Policy Institute, "Declining Value of the Federal Minimum Wage is a Major Factor Driving Inequality," February 21, 2013
- Fiscal Policy Institute, "States with Minimum Wages above the Federal Level have had Faster Small Business and Retail Job Growth," March 30, 2006
- Institute for Research and Labor Employment, "Local Minimum Wage Laws: Impacts on Workers, Families and Businesses," March 2014
- Institute for Research and Labor Employment, "Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies," September 2013
- Institute for Research and Labor Employment, "Do Minimum Wages Really Reduce Teen Employment? Accounting for Heterogeneity and Selectivity in State Panel Data," April 2011
- Institute for Research and Labor Employment, "Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties," November 2010
- National Bureau of Economic Research, "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania," October 1993
Opposition
- Cato Institute, "The Negative Effects of Minimum Wage Laws," June 21, 2012
- Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor, "Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?" January 2013
- Employment Policies Institute, "Minimum Wage: Evaluating New Evidence on Employment Effects," January 2013
- Employment Policies Institute, "Can Raising the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty and Hardship?" April 2012
- Employment Policies Institute, "Just Getting By? Income Dependence on Minimum Wage Jobs," March 2011
- Employment Policies Institute, "The Effect of Minimum Wage Increases on Retail and Small Business Employment," May 2006
- National Bureau of Economic Research, "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Review of Evidence from the New Minimum Wage Research," November 2006
Footnotes
- ↑ An increase to the minimum wage in Washington, D.C. was set to be calculated and published in July 2025