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The Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act controls the state of Michigan minimum wage through a fixed annual escalator that raises the floor each January without requiring new legislative votes. As of January 1, 2026, that escalator pushed the standard rate to $13.
Colorado's state minimum wage rose to $14.42 per hour on January 1, 2024, set automatically by a Consumer Price Index formula that removes the state legislature from annual rate decisions entirely.
New Jersey's minimum wage for most employees reached $15.13 per hour on January 1, 2024, completing a legislated climb from $8.85 in 2019 and triggering a permanent CPI-indexed adjustment formula. The rate doesn't come from annual legislative votes anymore.
Governor Glenn Youngkin's 2023 veto of House Bill 1 and Senate Bill 1 broke Virginia's planned minimum wage escalator, freezing the rate at $12.00 per hour for both 2023 and 2024.
Article II, Section 34a of the Ohio Constitution contains the formula that sets Ohio's minimum wage every January 1, removing the state legislature from the process entirely. The rate adjusts automatically based on the Consumer Price Index, which pushed the minimum wage in Ohio from $10.
Unlike most state wage floors, which legislatures can freeze or repeal at will, Florida's minimum wage is locked into the state constitution. The current rate is $14.00 per hour, climbing to $15.
Florida's minimum wage for 2024 is $13.00 per hour, a rate that took effect on September 30, 2024, under a constitutional amendment voters passed in 2020 to bypass a state legislature that wouldn't act. The tipped employee cash wage for the same period is $9.98 per hour.
Oregon divides its territory into three wage zones (Portland metro, standard counties, and non-urban counties) and ties each zone's minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index, recalculating every July 1. The 2024 adjustment raised all three tiers by 50 cents, landing at $15.95, $14.70, and $13.
Washington state doesn't have one minimum wage. It has at least seven. The statewide floor sat at $16.28 per hour for 2024 (rising to $17.
Article II, Section 34a of the Ohio Constitution locks in an automatic minimum wage adjustment every January 1, indexed to the Consumer Price Index. The 2024 Ohio minimum wage was $10.45 per hour for non-tipped employees and $5.25 for tipped employees, and those rates have since risen to $11.
Initiative 1433, which Washington voters approved in November 2016, built an automatic escalator into state law: the minimum wage rises every January 1 by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), producing a 2024 rate of $16.
The state of New Jersey minimum wage operates through a Consumer Price Index escalator that adjusts automatically every January 1. The current rate is $15.92 per hour for most workers as of January 1, 2026, and that figure will climb again next year based on inflation data from the U.S.
