[Connecticut] Minimum wage increased to $12 per hour

[Connecticut] Minimum wage increased to $12 per hour
07 Sep 2020

On September 1, low-wage workers in Connecticut received a pay rise when the state’s minimum hourly wage increased from $11 to $12. The wage hike follows the signing of a bill - increasing Connecticut’s hourly minimum wage to $15 over a four-and-a-half-year period - by Governor Ned Lamont. The first raise of the state’s minimum wage under the new law was an increase from $10.10 per hour to $11 on October 1, 2019.

Under the bill’s terms, the new hourly minimum wage went up to $12 on September 1 and will increase in further increments until it reaches $15 on June 1, 2023. The federal minimum hourly wage is $7.25 per hour. Every January 1 - after the per hour rate reaches $15 in 2023 - the minimum wage will be adjusted by the per cent change in the federal Employment Cost Index (ECI) for all workers’ wages and salaries for the one-year period ending June 30 of the preceding year. KEYT reports on the new wage hike and reactions to the change.

On September 1, low-wage workers in Connecticut received a pay rise when the state’s minimum hourly wage increased from $11 to $12. The wage hike follows the signing of a bill - increasing Connecticut’s hourly minimum wage to $15 over a four-and-a-half-year period - by Governor Ned Lamont. The first raise of the state’s minimum wage under the new law was an increase from $10.10 per hour to $11 on October 1, 2019.

Under the bill’s terms, the new hourly minimum wage went up to $12 on September 1 and will increase in further increments until it reaches $15 on June 1, 2023. The federal minimum hourly wage is $7.25 per hour. Every January 1 - after the per hour rate reaches $15 in 2023 - the minimum wage will be adjusted by the per cent change in the federal Employment Cost Index (ECI) for all workers’ wages and salaries for the one-year period ending June 30 of the preceding year. KEYT reports on the new wage hike and reactions to the change.