For Star subscribers: Workers at the bottom of the Arizona wage scale will be legally entitled to a pay raise of $1.05 an hour or $42 a week beginning in January. And you can credit — or blame — the…
Howard Fischer Workers at the bottom of the Arizona wage scale will be legally entitled to a pay raise of $42 a week beginning in January.New figures reported Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that costs for urban consumers, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, rose 8.3% between August 2021 and last month.
People are also reading… Will supercede Tucson's minimum The latest state minimum wage increase comes after Tucsonans voted last year to impose their own $15-an-hour minimum, in steps, by 2025. Businesses having to pay more anywayStatewide, even with the big increase and the new $13.85 wage floor, the automatic boost being precipitated by Tuesday's BLS data may have little practical effect on what many companies pay their Arizona workers, however.
"Our 'back of the house' is making more money than ever before due to labor shortages and a whole host of reasons,'' he said."We're well above the minimum wage in the back of the house.''For 2021, the most recent data available, fast food cooks already were earning an average of $13.58 an hour. The figure for cooks at more traditional restaurants was $15.93. Dishwashers were being paid an average of $14.08 an hour.
Inflation in fuel, food costs and moreArizona voters mandated in 2006 that the state have its own minimum wage not tied to the federal figure.
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