Technically, state minimum wage law is $5.15, but it defaults to the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act since it is higher, at ...

More than 20 states are raising their minimum wage next year, some adjusting for inflation and others to build their way up to the called-for $15 an hour. Georgia is not one of them.

Georgia lawmakers push to increase state's minimum wage The official minimum wage in Georgia is set at $5.15/hr To stream 11Alive on your phone, you need the 11Alive app.

Georgia’s minimum wage of $5.15 per hour is the lowest in the nation, but Wyoming also has the same minimum wage. Also, most of Georgia’s workers paid hourly rates earn the federal minimum of ...

In the United States, minimum wage laws are set at the state and federal level. Although the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 since 2009, many states have increased their own minimum wage ...

For roughly 1.4 million people living in Georgia, a person earning minimum wage would need to work nearly four full-time jobs — or over 140 hours a week — to make monthly rent payments.

Georgia could become the next state to end the subminimum wage for disabled people, a widespread and now widely opposed exception to minimum wage laws that extends to some 40,000 workers with ...

Historically, some state lawmakers have advocated for quick “fixes” in response to perilous economic situations, such as minimum wage hikes. However, minimum wage increases in any state typically ...

Georgia is ripe for this kind of economic message. ... Both Warnock and Ossoff support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but neither has made it a centerpiece of his campaign.

Georgia’s private sector minimum wage was last updated in 1999, and currently stands at ₾20 ($7.50) per month. That makes it one of the lowest monthly minimum wages in the world — about ...