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irisblue

(34,270 posts)
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 08:37 AM Dec 2019

Ohio Minimum Wage Increase to $8.70/ hour

Source--https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/26/ohio-s-minimum-wage-will-get-a-boost-in-2020.html


snip--The state’s minimum wage will rise 15 cents an hour from $8.55 to $8.70 when the calendar switches to 2020. Workers who receive tips will see an increase in minimum pay from $4.30 an hour to $4.35.

snip--The state’s minimum wage is $1.45 more than the federal minimum wage, which sits at $7.25 per hour. That rate has been unchanged for 10 years.

More at article.


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Ohio Minimum Wage Increase to $8.70/ hour (Original Post) irisblue Dec 2019 OP
woo. hoo. marble falls Dec 2019 #1
A whole 15 cents! Ohiogal Dec 2019 #2
That's pitiful Sanity Claws Dec 2019 #3
Last year at this time Ohiogal Dec 2019 #4
Absolutely obscene. badhair77 Dec 2019 #6
Full time irisblue Dec 2019 #7
MA is up over $12.75 this year, on it's way to $15 getagrip_already Dec 2019 #5
Hey now.. irisblue Dec 2019 #8
apologies to our ohio friends.... getagrip_already Dec 2019 #9
No offense taken by me. irisblue Dec 2019 #10

Sanity Claws

(22,038 posts)
3. That's pitiful
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 08:52 AM
Dec 2019

If the person works 40 hours a week, that means an increase of $6 per week. That is not going to lift a person out of poverty.

Ohiogal

(34,711 posts)
4. Last year at this time
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 09:17 AM
Dec 2019

Ohio’s legislators gave themselves a much more generous raise!

https://radio.wosu.org/post/ohio-lawmakers-vote-themselves-pay-raise#stream/0

“Unfortunately, a poison pill was added to [the bill] which allows every politician in Ohio to receive a 25 percent pay increase and does nothing to help Ohioans whose wages have been stagnant for years,” he said.

This should be shouted from the rooftops, Ohio journalists and media!

getagrip_already

(17,440 posts)
5. MA is up over $12.75 this year, on it's way to $15
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 09:31 AM
Dec 2019

For workers making tips, it's up to $4.75.

We also have rec legal cannabis, and reasonably strong gun control.

Our world hasn't ended. It isn't expected to end. There isn't any social outrage from the business community.

We do have an affordable housing shortage, and rents are sky high, so it isn't utopia. Oh, and we have a LOT of koch trained astroturf being laid out in communities across the commonwealth.

But it ain't Ohio either.......

irisblue

(34,270 posts)
10. No offense taken by me.
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 01:49 PM
Dec 2019

I live in Columbus, the urban areas here are very very different from the surrounding 'burbs & the ruby red rural areas.

I have lived here since 89, the changes I see are amazing.


Besides, you got Legal Seafood, all over the place, and I am freaking JEALOUS

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