The coalition is sponsoring a Week of Action for a Fair Minimum Wage, the week of March 13 2016, where people in 13 PA communities will demand action to raise the state minimum wage to at least $10.10, including for tipped workers, with a cost of living escalator.
http://raisethewagepa.org/updates/
What is the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage? The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage is the lowest hourly wage that an employee working in Pennsylvania can legally be paid. Both Pennsylvania and the federal government have set a legal minimum wage - Pennsylvania's is $7.25 per hour, while the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
http://www.minimum-wage.us/state.php/?state=Pennsylvania
Administration of Pennsylvania's New Minimum Wage Law. The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act, as amended in 2006, establishes a fixed Minimum Wage and Overtime Rate for employees in Pennsylvania. It also sets forth compliance-related duties for the Department of Labor & Industry and for employers. In addition, the Minimum Wage Act provides penalties for noncompliance.
http://www.dli.pa.gov/Individuals/Labor-Management-Relations/llc/minimum-wage/Pages/default.aspx
Legislation Could Raise PA Minimum Wage to $10.10 Per Hour. A Pennsylvania lawmaker is pushing for legislation that would increase the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour over the next two years. Under Senate Bill 1300, the minimum wage would jump to $8.20 an hour beginning July 1, 2014. On Jan. 1, 2015, wages would increase again to $9.50 an hour and then $10.10 an hour one year later.
http://wesa.fm/post/legislation-could-raise-pa-minimum-wage-1010-hour
Minimum Wage Workers in Pennsylvania — 2015. Of the 3,524,000 workers paid hourly rates in Pennsylvania in 2015, 54,000 earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, while 96,000 earned less, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/news-release/minimumwageworkers_pennsylvania.htm
Of the total affected workers, about 742,000 (59 percent) are women.(7) • Of the Pennsylvania workers who would benefit from a $10.10 minimum wage in 2016, 296,000 (23 percent) are parents; an estimated 530,000 children live with a parent who would get a raise.(8)
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(See table 1.The Pennsylvania minimum wage is equal to the prevailing federal minimum wage.) In 2007, 69,000 hourly paid workers earned the prevailing federal minimum wage or less in Pennsylvania, the lowest level since data were first available in 1998.
https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/news-release/minimumwageworkers_pennsylvania.htm
The Raise the Wage PA Coalition is lobbying to raise the state's minimum wage to at least $10.10 an hour. HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that passage of a higher minimum wage in Pennsylvania is one of his priorities in the current legislative session. Wolf said he backs a bill sponsored by Rep. Patty Kim, a Dauphin County Democrat, to boost the state minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour over two years.
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-wolf-backs-10-minimum-wage-20150210-story.html
• Increasing Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would boost annual full-time earnings by $5,700 to. $20,200, enough to pull a family of three just above the poverty line.(16) Raising the tipped minimum wage to at least 70 percent of a $10.10 minimum wage—or ideally,
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Full time minimum wage workers in Pennsylvania earn a total of $290.00 per week and approximately $15,080.00 per year (based on a 8 hour days and a 260-day work year) before taxes. The federal poverty threshold for a household of two is $14,570 per year.
http://www.minimum-wage.us/state.php/?state=Pennsylvania
what is the minimum wage in pa.?
The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is $7.25 per hour. The minimum wage in per annum is $7.25 per hour.