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October 1, 2015

No minimum wage increase in 2016

OLYMPIA (AP) — Washington state's minimum wage will not increase next year, and the state will no longer have the highest statewide minimum wage as of January.

State officials announced that the current minimum wage of $9.47 an hour will not increase because inflation, as measured by the national Consumer Price Index, did not increase over the past year. That index decreased 0.3 percent.


 
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