Ohio workers will see slightly larger paychecks in 2025, when a new minimum wage takes effect.
Ohio’s minimum wage will increase Jan. 1, from $10.45 to $10.70 per hour for nontipped employees, according to the Ohio Department of Commerce. Tipped employee wages will increase from $5.25 to $5.35 per hour.
The increase applies to businesses with an income of more than $394,000. Smaller companies that make less than $394,000 will pay employees at $7.25. The wages at these companies is tied to the federal minimum wage, which will not increase in 2025.
Ohio voters passed a constitutional amendment in 2006 to raise the minimum wage each year by the rate of inflation.
A campaign to raise the minimum wage in Ohio last year missed an important deadline in July, prompting Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to call it a “duplicitous, disorganized goat rodeo of a campaign.”
One Fair Wage now hopes to gather enough signatures to put the measure on the ballot in November 2025. The campaign wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 over time and annually increase the wage with inflation.
Reporter Laura Bischoff contributed.
Erin Glynn is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal and 18 other affiliated news organizations across Ohio.
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