This Monday, the Government of Mexico, employers and unions agreed to a 20% increase to the general minimum wage by 2020.
This means that it will go from $ 102.68 pesos a day to ($ 5.43 dollars) to 123.22 pesos ($ 6.51 dollars). In the free zone of the northern border with the United States it will go from $ 176.72 pesos ($ 9.34 dollars) to $ 185.56 pesos ($ 9.8 dollars) newspapers.
Although it is a significant increase, Mexico will still lag far behind the minimum wage in developed countries. In United States the minimum wage is $ 7.25 PER HOUR, or $ 137.14 Mexican pesos, depending on the Department of Labor.
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This means that if a worker works for eight hours a day he earns at least $ 58 a day or $ 1,097.13 Mexican pesos.
Although the minimum wage in the United States is $ 7.25 an hour, 29 states and Washington DC have higher minimum wages. Some have already proposed to reach up to $ 15 an hour within a few years.
The Department of Labor explains that when an employee is subject to state and federal minimum wage laws, the employee is entitled to the higher of the two minimum wages.
“Several minimum wage exceptions apply under specific circumstances to workers with disabilities, full-time students, youth under the age of 20 in their first 90 calendar days of employment, tipped employees, and students,” he adds.
Here is the list of the hourly minimum wage in each entity of the United States, according to the Department of Labor
- Alabama: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Alaska: $ 9.89 dollars per hour.
- Arizona: $ 11 dollars an hour.
- Arkansas: $ 9.25 dollars per hour.
- California: $ 11 dollars an hour.
- Colorado: $ 11.10 dollars per hour.
- Connecticut: $ 11 dollars an hour.
- Delaware: $ 9.25 dollars per hour.
- Florida: $ 8.46 dollars per hour.
- Georgia: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Hawaii: $ 10.10 dollars per hour.
- Idaho: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Illinois: $ 8.25 per hour.
- Indiana: $ 7.25 dollars an hour.
- Iowa: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Kansas: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Kentucky: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Louisiana: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Massachusetts: $ 12 dollars an hour.
- Maine: $ 11 an hour.
- Maryland: $ 10.10 dollars per hour.
- Michigan: $ 9.45 dollars per hour.
- Minnesota: $ 9.86 an hour.
- Missouri: $ 8.60 dollars an hour.
- Mississippi: $ 7.25 an hour.
- Montana: $ 8.50 an hour.
- North Carolina: $ 7.25 an hour.
- North Dakota: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Nebraska: $ 9 dollars an hour.
- New Hampshire: $ 7.25 an hour.
- New Jersey: $ 10 dollars an hour.
- New Mexico: $ 7.50 an hour.
- Nevada: $ 8.25 dollars per hour.
- New York: $ 11.10 an hour. $ 12.00 (Long Island and Westchester), $ 13.50 (NYC- Small Employers (10 or less), $ 15.00 (NYC- Large Employers (11 or more).
- Ohio: $ 8.55 an hour.
- Oklahoma: $ 7.25 an hour.
- Oregon: $ 11.25 an hour.
- Pennsylvania: $ 7.25 an hour.
- Rhode Island: $ 10.50 dollars an hour.
- South Carolina: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- South Dakota: $ 9.10 dollars per hour.
- Tennessee: $ 7.25 dollars an hour.
- Texas: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Utah: $ 7.25 dollars per hour.
- Virginia: $ 7.25 dollars an hour.
- Vermont: $ 10.78 an hour.
- Washington: $ 12 dollars an hour.
- Wisconsin: $ 7.25 an hour.
- West Virginia: $ 8.75 an hour.
- Wyoming: $ 7.25 dollars an hour.
- Washington DC: $ 14 dollars an hour.
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They denounce that there are more and more requirements to obtain a work visa, including unnecessary documents and redundant information
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