{"id":329311,"date":"2026-01-04T18:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/22-states-raising-their-minimum-wage-in-2026-as-high-as-17-per-hour"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:57:05","slug":"22-states-raising-their-minimum-wage-in-2026-as-high-as-17-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/22-states-raising-their-minimum-wage-in-2026-as-high-as-17-per-hour","title":{"rendered":"22 States Elevating Their Minimal Wage in 2026 (As Excessive As $17 Per Hour)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Drazen Zigic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/workers\/images\/width=1920\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/30144424\/shutterstock_2154986023-scaled.jpg?s=9e226e64ac24f55d331b57974d0ca279667c6a883ef2f3e8aff2710c7ffff558\" alt=\"Woman working and looking at a clipboard in a warehouse with a coworker in the background\"><figcaption>Drazen Zigic \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you make the minimum wage \u2014 and live in the right place \u2014 you could be due for a pay raise this year. In 22 U.S. states, the minimum wage is increasing in 2026, according to a roundup from Paycor, a company that creates human resources software. Some of these states are gradually raising their minimum wage over a period of years with the goal of topping out at $15 an hour.<\/p>\n<p> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/18-states-where-the-minimum-wage-just-increased\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drazen Zigic \/ Shutterstock.com If you make the minimum wage \u2014 and live in the right place \u2014 you could be due for a pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4557],"tags":[6997,6998,7001,1735,227,6996,221,6999,173,7000],"class_list":["post-329311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","tag-drazen-zigic","tag-human-sources-software-program","tag-income-distribution","tag-labour-law","tag-online-services-nec","tag-paycor","tag-shutterstock","tag-system-software","tag-united-states","tag-wages-and-salaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329313,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329311\/revisions\/329313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}