Wage growth at the bottom was strongest in states with minimum wage increases between 2013 and 2019: 10th-percentile wage growth from 2013 to 2019, by presence of state minimum wage increase between 2013 and 2019 and by gender
| States with minimum wage increases between 2013 and 2019 | States with no minimum wage increases between 2013 and 2019 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 17.6% | 9.3% |
| Men | 16.0% | 9.3% |
| Women | 16.1% | 7.6% |
Note: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Washington increased their minimum wages at some point between 2013 and 2019.
Sources: Author’s analysis of EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0 (2020), https://microdata.epi.org, and EPI analysis of state minimum wage laws. See EPI’s minimum wage tracker for the most current state-level minimum wage information.