What is the minimum wage?
The minimum wage is the starting hourly wage an employer can pay an employee for work. Currently, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour (part of the Fair Labor Standards Act). Some states and cities have raised their minimum wage higher than that. In most instances, the higher of the prevailing minimum wage requirements is binding for employers.
April 10, 2026
Oklahomans Beware of Minimum Wage Consequences Next Door
Things will be heating up this summer as Oklahoma voters head to the polls to decide State Question 832, a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an…
April 3, 2026
New UC Berkeley Study Misleads on CA $20 Wage
April 1 marked the two year anniversary of California’s harmful $20 fast food wage law. While government data shows the hike has cost the state tens of thousands of jobs…
March 27, 2026
Efforts to Raise Wages Fail Across the Country
This week, several attempts to eliminate tip credits and spike minimum wage requirements were scrapped. In Maryland, One Fair Wage supported a pair of companion bills that would have created…
March 20, 2026
Chicago Halts Its Tip Credit Elimination Experiment
Chicago’s tipped workers received a lifeline this week, as officials voted to permanently freeze the phase-out of the city’s tip credit for restaurants, capping the credit at 24% of the…