COLUMBUS – Ohio’s minimum-wage workers are getting a 50-cent-an-hour raise next year.
The state’s minimum wage for non-tipped employees is scheduled to increase on Jan. 1 from $8.80 an hour to $9.30, according to the Ohio Department of Commerce.
The increase comes as employers struggle to find workers following the COVID-19 pandemic and amid a debate about raising minimum wages to improve the earnings of low-income Americans.
A constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2006 tie the state minimum wage to the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price index for the 12-month period prior to September. The index increased by 5.8 percent during that period.
The minimum wage for employees of companies with annual gross receipts of $342,000 or less and for 14- and 15-year-olds is tied to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which can only be changed by Congress.