Ten states began, a New Year, a rise in the minimum wage 10 to 35 cents, between small increase of nearly 1 million low pay workers' income.
Rise up the effective date in the United States Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, vermont and Washington.
Add to add an additional $190510 annual average minimum wage workers pocket, according to the independent national employment law project, a study released last month.
Rhode Island state minimum wage standard raised follow the national independence, Lincoln Chafee, governor June signed a law. Other countries raised the minimum wage standard according to the national legal requirements to adjust every year, in order to keep up with the steps of inflation, the report said.
"For a low wage workers, the increase of the rising cost of an important protection. In no index, inflation slowly eroded the worker minimum wage, the nonpartisan economic policy institute analyst David cooper said."
Range increased from 10 cents per hour in Missouri - the minimum wage is 7.35 hours, on January 1, - in Rhode Island, where the new minimum wage increase to $7.75 to 35 cents.
The increase will improve pay 995000 low salary of the workers. The new interest rate more than what they paid about 855000 workers are directly influence. Another 140000 workers were set to receive an indirect rise, upward adjustment to reflect the new minimum salary scale, according to the institute.
The report says, the January 1,, the United States and a state of Columbia and the federal level of $7.25 an hour, this means that each year more than 15000 dollars of full-time minimum wage earners have more than minimum wage standard.
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