Chicago minimum wage While Illinois’ minimum wage went up to $15 per hour on Jan. 1, the city of Chicago’s minimum wage for companies goes into effect on July 1 each year.

State lawmakers have approved a plan to increase Illinois' minimum wage to $15 over five years. The Senate voted 30-23 Wednesday evening, a day after the House backed it.

On January 1, 2025, we saw the Illinois minimum wage increase from $14.00 to $15.00 per hour. The City of Chicago is increasing its set minimum wage on July 1, 2025 for employers with four (4) or ...

Workers need to earn three times more than Indiana's minimum wage just to survive, a new study found. • Indiana mandates the ...

Illinois is on track to increase the state's minimum wage to $15 for general workers and $9 an hour for tipped workers by 2025.

When the minimum wage does not go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. For full-time workers that amounts to $15,080 if you ...

A Kentuckian who works a full-time job earning the state’s minimum wage would now be considered to be living in poverty by ...

For those earning Illinois' minimum wage of $15 per hour, affording a two-bedroom apartment would require working 79 hours each week, or nearly two full-time jobs. This places Illinois at 19th ...

On Sunday, Quinn approved the November ballot measure asking if Illinois should raise the minimum hourly wage from $8.25 to $10 by 2015 for those 18 years and older.