2014 State Minimum Wage Changes Outlined
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- As businesses prepare for the first payroll of 2014, H.D. Davis CPAs, Liberty Township, is offering a list of state minimum hourly wage changes announced late last month.
Most take effect Jan. 1.
In Ohio, the minimum wage rises to $7.95 for nontipped employees and $3.98 for tipped employees (will apply beginning in 2014 to employers who gross more than $292,000 per year).
Here are the changes:
- Arizona, to $7.90 for nontipped employees and $4.90 for tipped employees.
- California, to $9 for all employees (effective July 1, 2014).
- Connecticut, to $8.70 for nontipped employees, $5.69 for service employees (waiters/waitresses at hotels and restaurants) and $7.34 for bartenders.
- Florida, to $7.93 for nontipped employees and $4.91 for tipped employees.
- Missouri, to $7.50 for nontipped employees and $3.75 for those tipped.
- Montana, to $7.90 for nontipped and tipped employees
- New Jersey, to $8.25; employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act to $2.13 for tipped employees.
- New York, to $8 (effective Dec. 31).
- Oregon, to $9.10 for nontipped and tipped employees
- Rhode Island, to $8 for nontipped employees and $2.89 (no change) for tipped employees.
- Vermont, to $8.73 for nontipped employees and $4.23 for those tipped.
- Washington, to $9.32 for nontipped and tipped employees.
Business owneres who need to change any of their employees' hourly rates to meet the new state minimum wage requirements must provide the new rate to their payroll provider with the first payroll with a check date on or after Jan. 1, 2014 (Dec. 31 for New York).
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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