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Minimum $7.25 WAGE RISING TO
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Published: July 23, 2009
Minimum-wage earners in Florida will get their second raise of the year Friday.
Now they'll make $7.25 an hour.
The 70-cent increase in the federal minimum wage is the last of three bumps that began in summer 2007. That boost was the first in a decade, raising the rate from $5.15 an hour.
Sunshine State workers will get only 4 cents more, though, because Florida is among the states that set their own minimum, which rose to $7.21 an hour on Jan. 1.
Employers must pay whichever rate is higher, so now the federal rate trumps the state's.
Wendy Whitt
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