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Oregon, California and Washington pass bills raising the minimum wage

cardinaltimes.org Oregon, California and Washington pass bills raising the minimum wage

The minimum wage in the United States is $7.25. In comparison, Washington’s minimum wage is $16.28 per hour and California’s minimum wage is $16.00 an hour. Oregon’s minimum wage depends where you live. The standard minimum wage is $14.20. The Portland Metro minimum wage is $15.45 and the non-urban ...

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Oregons raise is because of a bill passed several years ago (eventually) tying the minimum wage to CPI with adjustments based on area. It went up by set amounts yearly. 2023 was the first year that was outside those set amounts and actually uses CPI.

https://www.oregon.gov/boli/workers/Pages/minimum-wage-schedule.aspx
- Is it possible that minimum wage could go down in this system? I love that it's tied to a metric taking all of the politics and guess work out of any increases.
  
  It's been a while since I've looked at the language of the bill itself, but I believe it can only go up. The language on the site trends that way too.
- Same with Washington State, its been slowly going up since 1999 when it first broke with the Federal minimum. 25 years..
$15.40, Washington at $16.28 and California at roughly $16

"Roughly $16"? Is there something beyond cents that makes California's new minimum wage hard to state clearly?
- Certain counties have different minimum wages. So it's difficult to give a hard number for the state. But they're all in the neighborhood of $16
  
  Sure, but what is the minimum? Do counties get to undercut the state minimum wage? If so, what good is the state minimum wage? There is some minimum.
- A lot of loopholes
- It applies to only certain jobs. There's some variance in CAs minimum wage depending on if you're a tipped server, fast food worker, or something else.
Meanwhile Idaho right next door is still at the federal $7.25 minimum wage. How Idaho border town min wage jobs stay staffed I have no idea.
- Probably employs the same people Donald Trump is calling animals and wants kicked out of the country, or worse. And when they succeed those towns are going to crumble.
- They just hire illegals ez
- When wages go up, so does rent.
  
  You're not actually make more money. Your landlords are.
  
  Edit: Sad this gets downvoted, but it's a testament to how most people are proud to be useful idiots these days.
  
  They just can't see the bigger picture, lol.
  
  That's not how supply and demand work at all. Otherwise why would median monthly rent in Spokane, Washington be $1395 while median rent in Coeur d'Alene across the border in Idaho is $1800, given that the minimum wage is more than double in the former compared to the latter?
  
  So complain about landlords, not wages

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