Minimum Wage Increase Signed Into Law
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After fighting for years to increase Connecticut's minimum hourly wage, Representative Robyn Porter and her supporters watch Governor Ned Lamont sign her legislation into law in a ceremony at the State Capitol.
The new law raises the current $10.10 minimum wage over four and a half years to $15 an hour by June 1, 2023.
"Workers in our state deserve this raise," Porter said.
In March, it was five years ago that Connecticut passed a $10.10 hourly minimum wage to take effect by 2017. At the time, the current minimum wage was good compared to other states, but since then the pay for our private-sector workers has significantly lagged behind our neighboring states: Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont all have higher minimum wages than Connecticut.
Under the new law, the minimum will increase to $11 this year, $12 in 2020, $13 in 2021, $14 in 2022 and $15 in 2023. In 2024 and years thereafter the minimum wage will be indexed to the rate of inflation, so we won’t have to continue fighting for wage increases every year, Porter said.