(cnbc.com) - If you are among the United States' lowest earners, you could be ringing in the new year with a raise, depending on where you live.
Fourteen cities and counties in seven states — Washington, Oregon, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Montana — agreed to increase the minimum wage to $15 in 2015, according to a report by the National Employment Law Project, a national advocacy organization for employment rights of lower-wage workers.
These increases will take place over the course of several years, giving local businesses time to adjust to the hike.
While not all states will be adjusting rates to the $15 mark, 13 states — Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia — will increase minimum wages in 2016.
These wage increases range from a 35 cents an hour in states like Michigan to a dollar in California, Massachusetts and Nebraska. (Full Text)
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