Amended bill would match Wyoming, federal minimum wages
CHEYENNE – A group of Wyoming lawmakers voted Friday to bump up the state’s minimum wage for non-tipped employees to $7.25 per hour – the same as the federal minimum wage.
If that bill passes both the House and Senate, it would not change much for most Wyoming employees, but would no longer make Wyoming tied for the lowest minimum wage in the country among the states that have minimum wages.
Originally, House Bill 140, brought by Rep. James Byrd, D-Cheyenne, would have raised Wyoming’s minimum wage to $9.50 an hour for non-tipped employees and $5.50 for tipped employees.
But such an increase was not palatable to members of the House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee, and members amended the bill to simply match the federal wage.
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