29 states saw no real increase in the value of their minimum wage between 2010 and 2018: States with and without a real increase in their minimum wage between 2010 and 2018

State Key Real minimum wage increase
Alabama 0 No real increase
Alaska 1 Real increase
Arizona 1 Real increase
Arkansas 1 Real increase
California 1 Real increase
Colorado 1 Real increase
Connecticut 1 Real increase
Delaware 0 No real increase
Washington D.C. 1 Real increase
Florida 0 No real increase
Georgia 0 No real increase
Hawaii 1 Real increase
Idaho 0 No real increase
Illinois 0 No real increase
Indiana 0 No real increase
Iowa 0 No real increase
Kansas 0 No real increase
Kentucky 0 No real increase
Louisiana 0 No real increase
Maine 1 Real increase
Maryland 1 Real increase
Massachusetts 1 Real increase
Michigan 1 Real increase
Minnesota 1 Real increase
Mississippi 0 No real increase
Missouri 0 No real increase
Montana 0 No real increase
Nebraska 1 Real increase
Nevada 0 No real increase
New Hampshire 0 No real increase
New Jersey 1 Real increase
New Mexico 0 No real increase
New York 1 Real increase
North Carolina 0 No real increase
North Dakota 0 No real increase
Ohio 0 No real increase
Oklahoma 0 No real increase
Oregon 1 Real increase
Pennsylvania 0 No real increase
Rhode Island 1 Real increase
South Carolina 0 No real increase
South Dakota 1 Real increase
Tennessee 0 No real increase
Texas 0 No real increase
Utah 0 No real increase
Vermont 1 Real increase
Virginia 0 No real increase
Washington 1 Real increase
West Virginia 1 Real increase
Wisconsin 0 No real increase
Wyoming 0 No real increase

Note: States in blue have positive real minimum wage increases between 2010 and 2018, after adjusting for inflation using the CPI-U-RS.

Sources: CPI-U-RS from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and minimum wage data from Kavya Vaghul and Ben Zipperer, “Historical State and Sub-State Minimum Wages,” Version 1.2.0, 2019

View the underlying data on epi.org.