Ohio's minimum wage is set to increase on Jan. 1, 2025 from $10.45 to $10.70 per hour for non-tipped employees, according to the Ohio Department of Commerce. Tipped employees will be starting at $5.35 per hour, up from the 2024 rate of $5.25. These rates apply to employees at businesses with annual gross receipts higher than $394,000 per year.

Starting Jan. 1, the minimum hourly wage will increase from $10.33 to $10.56 an hour. The minimum wage for minors will increase from $8.78 to $8.89 an hour, and the tipped hourly wage will increase from $3.

According to CBIA, Connecticut has the fifth-highest minimum wage, following the District of Columbia ($17.50), Washington state ($16.28), California ($16), and New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties ($16). The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, which prevails in 13 states.

Minimum wage in the city will rise to $20.76 per hour beginning midnight on New Year’s Day, one of the highest rates in the country. For the first time since Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance took effect almost a decade ago, all employers will be subject to the same pay floor.

Texas follows the federal minimum wage guidelines, however, five major cities in the state start city employees at nearly double the current wage.

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