Arizona minimum wage set to increase again in 2022

[AZProgressive]

PHOENIX — Arizona’s minimum wage is set to increase again for the fifth straight year in 2022.

Starting Jan. 1, employers across the state will have to pay workers at least $12.80 an hour, the Industrial Commission of Arizona announced Thursday. That is up 5.3% from the $12.15 minimum wage in 2021.

The increase comes off the back of a report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that shows that the Consumer Price Index rose 5.3% from August 2020 to August 2021.

In 2016, voters approved Proposition 206, which raised the minimum wage from $8.05 an hour to $10 and then increased it every year to $12 in 2020. Prop. 206 then required the minimum wage to be adjusted annually for inflation based off August numbers.

https://www.abc15.com/news/business/arizona-minimum-wage-set-to-increase-again-in-2022?_amp=true

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. I'm surprised, like with Prop 208 for education spending, the Lege didn't attempt to overturn

the will of the voters.