FRISCO — A minimum wage law recently signed by Gov. Jared Polis is giving heartburn to some Summit County employers. When it goes into effect next year, the law will give local governments the ability ...

Washington has the highest state minimum wage at $17.13 as of January 1, 2026.

Millions of working people got a raise on Jan. 1 as the minimum wage went up in 19 states and nearly two dozen cities. Some workers’ wages increased by a few cents an hour — the result of automatic ...

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, leaving each of the 50 states to pay that minimum or more. More than half the states have a minimum wage of at least $10 per hour; twenty states match the ...