California Raises Minimum Wage To $15
Hawaii has a higher cost of living than California, but lawmakers in the Aloha State rejected a proposal this year to raise the minimum wage to $16 by 2020.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has a law to raise the state’s minimum hourly wage to $15 by 2022.
That’s nearly twice as much as Hawaii’s current minimum wage of $8.50. Hawaii’s minimum wage is on track to increase to $10.10 by January 1, 2018.
New York is the only other state that has committed to raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, the reported.
According to the Hawaii is more expensive than either California or New York.
Hawaii Sen. Josh Green from the Big Island this year that sought to increase the minimum wage to $16 per hour by 2020.
But the proposal died after Sen. Gilbert Keith-Agaran from Maui didn’t call a hearing for it.
