Best and worst states on minimum wage. Where does your state fall?

[Blue_Roses]

http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm

This is pitiful. What's up with Ohio and Kansas? How do they expect people to live on these wages?

[beyurslf]

1. The Fed rate hits most businesses. Look at all the Southern states with

NO Min Wage.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. If there is no state minimum wage, then federal minimum wage applies

What I want to know is: how does it work with states that have a state minimum wage that is lower than the federal mandate?

[beyurslf]

6. The Fed still applies.

[Blue Diadem]

14. Here is a link to how Ohio's wage works..

If an entity grosses over $500,000 a year or is involved in interstate commerce then the U.S. Department of Labor, Federal Wage & Hour Division has jurisdiction of any wage and hour issues pertaining to such entity. This bureau of the Ohio Department of Commerce (ODOC) administers and enforces Ohio's Minimum Wage Laws, Ohio's Minor Labor Law, and Ohio's Prevailing Wage Law. from http://198.234.41.198/w3/webwh.nsf?Opendatabase




http://198.234.41.198/w3/webwh.nsf/dd5cab6801f1723585256474005327c8/6cfcc1a6da87d5a585256618004a5489?OpenDocument



"Employer" is any governmental entity, business association, or person or group of persons acting in the interest of an employee in relation to an employee, but does not include an employer whose annual gross volume of sales in less than $150,000.00.

Employee" is any individual employed by an employer, but does not included individuals employed:
by the United States;
1.as a baby sitter or live-in companion (whose principal duties do not include housekeeping);

2.in newspaper delivery;

3.in outside sales compensated by commissions;

4.in an executive, administrative or professional capacity;

5.in agriculture (if the employer did not use more than 500 man-days of labor in any one quarter);

6.in services of a charitable nature;

7.by a police or fire protection agency, and;

8.at a camp or recreational area for minors, if operated by a nonprofit organization.

snip:Minimum Wage Rate

Companies with a gross dollar volume of sales per year:

Less than $150,000.00
Non-tipped employees $2.80; tipped employees $2.01
With no overtime required for hours over 40

More than $150,000.00, but less than $500,000.00:

Non-tipped employees $3.35; tipped employees $2.01
With overtime at one and one-half the employee's hourly rate after 40 actual working hours

[Blue Diadem]

15. forgot to add that Ohio is raising to federal rate

Isn't that special?? This state is so backwards it's awful..

http://www.middletownjournal.com/hp/content/news/stories/2006/03/10/mj0311taft_s.html

COLUMBUS: Taft to sign minimum-wage bill/03-11
Governor has reservations on gun law changes


COLUMBUS — Gov. Bob Taft said Friday he will sign a bill that would increase Ohio’s minimum wage to $5.15 an hour, but is against proposed changes to Ohio’s two-year-old concealed-weapons law.

The minimum wage bill received final approval from the House and Senate on Wednesday.

[CrispyQ]

3. Great info!

And yes, what the hell is up with those two states? Personally, I wonder how anyone lives on any of these wages.

[Blue_Roses]

5. minimum wage at $5.15 an hour is ridiculous

it's horrible

[ThomasNewton]

4. Wages

Might the minimum wage/living wage issue be a good one to hit the reds with during the election?
Could it possibly attract more Latinos to the dems if dems made a nationwide effort on this?

[Warpy]

9. The artificially low minimum wage is the BEST issue

Oh, small business owners will scream bloody murder, they always do. However, every time the wage rises, their business goes way up and they end up making it all back very quickly. Then they forget all about that part and scream about the next hike.

This is an issue both Freeps and rational people agree on: wages in this country have simply fallen too far to sustain life.

If the Democrats don't grab this issue, they are lost.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi ThomasNewton!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[monktonman]

7. Vermont

I think its $7 something. Theres alot of work going on here trying to get a state mandated livable wage of anywhere from 9 to 12 an hour.

[theHandpuppet]

8. Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?

If Ohio refuses to oust the rotting corpse of corruption they call government in Columbus, the Buckeye State might as well adopt a new motto: "Ohio -- The Mississippi of the North".

[TahitiNut]

10. Partial answer to Ohio ...

Once upon a time, I was related (by marriage) to folks from Ohio - lifetime residents for generations. My father's family was also lastly from Ohio - he was born in Byesville. What I've heard too often to be ignored ...
They don't want to attract "them people" from just south of them.

What I glean from this is an insular 'classism' with more than a smidgen of racism. As they look to the poverty toward the south and to the ethnic make-up of southeastern Michigan, they fear for the 'complexion' of the Buckeye state.

Clearly, no single perspective can be attributed to a large and diverse population of any state and this particular perspective is by no means unique in our country, it reared its ugly head often enough in my earshot that I found it sadly noteworthy.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. #1

:woohoo:


Eta: Those damn Connecticutians now beat us by $0.02!


#2

:woohoo:

[JPZenger]

12. PA. - GOP Legislature Stopped Efforts by Dem. Governor

The situation in PA is typical. The GOP-controlled legislature has prevented the Dem. Governor from getting the minimum wage increased.

[KansDem]

13. What's the matter with Kansas?

KANSAS
Basic Minimum Rate
$2.65

:wtf:

[Nye Bevan]

16. Here in Fairfield County, CT, the minimum wage is meaningless

The cheaper babysitters are $15 per hour here. We generally pay $20 per hour to our babysitter. And based on the help wanted ads I see, I don;t think anyone around here is working anywhere near the minimum wage.

[dogday]

17. Don't ever move to Kansas-check out their minimum

Future
Effective
Date Basic
Minimum Rate
(per hour) Premium Pay After Designated Hours 2

Daily Weekly
$2.65 46


Shit on that $2.65 a freaking hour?

[sutz12]

18. Funny, that map looks almost exactly like the red/blue one.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. Except for Alaska which is supposedly "red"

but we rock on this minimum wage thing - $7.15/hr. and no state income tax.