{"id":14824,"date":"2025-01-02T19:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T19:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=14824"},"modified":"2025-01-02T19:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T19:49:45","slug":"wage-increases-take-effect-jan-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/wage-increases-take-effect-jan-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wage Increases Take Effect Jan. 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio&#8217;s minimum wage is scheduled to increase Jan. 1, 2025,<br \/>\nto $10.70 per hour for non-tipped employees and $5.35 per hour for tipped<br \/>\nemployees. The minimum wage will apply to employees of businesses with<br \/>\nannual gross receipts of more than $394,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>The current 2024 minimum wage is $10.45 per hour for non-tipped employees<br \/>\nand $5.25 per hour for tipped employees. The 2024 Ohio minimum wage applies<br \/>\nto employees of businesses with annual gross receipts of more than<br \/>\n$385,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Amendment \u00a0(II-34a) passed by Ohio voters in November<br \/>\n2006 states Ohio&#8217;s minimum wage shall increase on January 1 each year by<br \/>\nthe rate of inflation. The state minimum wage is tied to the Consumer Price<br \/>\nIndex (CPI-W) for urban wage earners and clerical workers over the 12-month<br \/>\nperiod prior to September. The CPI-W index increased by 2.4 % over the<br \/>\n12-month period from Sept. 1, 2023, to Aug. 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>For employees at smaller companies with annual gross receipts of $394,000<br \/>\nor less per year after Jan. 1, 2025, and for 14- and 15-year-olds, the<br \/>\nstate&#8217;s minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. For these employees, the state wage<br \/>\nis tied to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which requires an<br \/>\nact of Congress and the President&#8217;s signature to change.<\/p>\n<p>Employers can access the 2025 Minimum Wage poster for display in their<br \/>\nplaces of business by visiting the Ohio Department of Commerce&#8217;s Division<br \/>\nof Industrial Compliance&#8217;s Bureau of Wage and Hour website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio&#8217;s minimum wage is scheduled to increase Jan. 1, 2025, to $10.70 per hour for non-tipped employees and $5.35 per hour for tipped employees. The minimum wage will apply to employees of businesses with annual gross receipts of more than $394,000 per year. The current 2024 minimum wage is $10.45 per hour for non-tipped employees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[272],"class_list":["post-14824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14825,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14824\/revisions\/14825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14824"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=14824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}