State minimum wage climbs to $11 an hour

[TexasTowelie]

Effective today, Arkansans making the state minimum wage will receive a $1 per hour pay increase under an initiated act passed in 2018.

Arkansas businesses must now pay employees no less than $11 an hour, marking the final step of a three-year phase-in that began in 2019. Before then, the state's minimum wage was $8.50 per hour.

The wage increase amounts to a $40 per week raise, before any taxes or other deductions, for employees who work 40 hours a week at minimum wage. Minimum-wage earners in Arkansas will make up to $440 a week.

The change comes in the midst of economic uncertainty brought on by the worst pandemic in 100 years. Supporters say the $1 increase comes at the perfect time, when many families are struggling to make ends meet.

Read more: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jan/01/state-minimum-wage-climbs-to-11-an-hour/?news-arkansas

[wcmagumba]

1. Good increase...still not high enough....my state (KS) is much worse....

still $7.25 an hour and the pukes in charge think that is too much..."are there no workhouses" yes, yes there are, in Kansas and many other locations in the US and around the globe...