NC state employee minimum wage to be set at $15 an hour

After the state budget becomes law on Tuesday, North Carolina is expected to be the first state to set wages of at least $ 15 for most state workers.

Nearly 9,000 state employees saw a raise with a minimum wage of over $ 31,000

Mandy Dockkendorf, Senator at the University of West Carolina, says, "I think that everyone wants better compensation."

Dockendorf said on average that employees affected by WCU had income of approximately $ 2,977 per year.

"[As the salary goes up, the children will be able to receive better education, child rearing is a big problem for many employees and teachers. By giving them some help, you can relax more comfortably It will be like everyday life, "Dockendorf said.

WCU's foreign relations official, Meredith Whitfield, said the communities around the WCU would also be affected by rising wages.

Whitfield said, "The restaurant will be affected and the store will see the impact of more money in people's pocket."

Wells Fargo & Co. decided to raise the minimum wage from $ 13.50 per hour to $ 15 per hour, affecting 86,000 employees. The PNC Financial Services Group has promised to raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars per hour by the end of the year. Also, it is the First Horizon National Corp. and the Truliant Federal Credit Union that raise their minimum wage.

The Minimum Wage Act protects all employees regardless of whether they receive a reminder. Employees are entitled to pay the minimum hourly wage hourly according to federal or state law. Currently, the federal minimum wage is $ 7.25 per hour. Idaho's minimum wage is the same. As a result, Idaho chip employees have the right to earn $ 7.25 per hour. State law varies depending on whether employers need to pay the full minimum wage yourself or whether they can calculate employee prompts for minimum wage obligations. In federal law and most states, employers can pay salaries to employees with a minimum wage that is lower than the minimum wage, as long as the employee has sufficient income to cover the balance. This is called "chip credit". Because the letter of credit is the amount the employer does not need to pay, the minimum wage (federal or state) minus the chip credit is the minimum amount of chips per employee's hour.

The minimum wage is the minimum wage that an employer can pay to its employees. Federal minimum wage, in some cases state minimum wage. The current federal minimum wage is $ 7.25. Employees working at $ 72 an hour and 40 hours per week have income of about $ 14,000 per year. The federal government considers the poverty line a person whose annual income is less than $ 17,000 ("Federal Minimum"). Therefore, anyone who earns the minimum wage lives below the poverty line. - Congress raised the federal minimum wage to 7.25 per hour in 2009, and it has been done only several times since wages were determined by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Even with a small income increase, today's minimum wage does not provide a decent standard of living. We are not keeping pace with the wage rise of American general workers