New Minimum Wage Rates in Effect
for 2020
Illinois Department of Labor Reminds
Workers to Watch Their Wages
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[January 04, 2020]
SPRINGFIELD – Illinoisans rang in the New Year with a new, higher
minimum wage, and the Department of Labor is encouraging employees
to watch their paychecks to ensure that time worked in 2020 is paid
at the new rate.
Governor JB Pritzker signed the new minimum wage law last February
providing a path to a $15 minimum wage by 2025. Minimum wage earners
received an increase of $1 to $9.25 an hour on January 1, which will
be followed by an increase to $10 an hour on July 1. The minimum
wage will then increase an additional $1 an hour each January 1
until it reaches $15 an hour in 2025.
“While we expect compliance by all employers regarding the new
minimum wage, it is important that workers earning minimum wage are
aware that the $1 increase should be reflected in their pay checks
for any time they work after the first of the year,” said Michael
Kleinik, director of the Illinois Department of Labor.
The last time Illinois increased its minimum wage was a decade ago
in 2010 when it was raised to $8.25. Since that time, Cook County
has put in place a $12 per hour minimum wage and Chicago’s minimum
wage is now $13 an hour.
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More than 1.4 million adult hourly workers in Illinois currently
make less than $15 per hour, according to the Illinois Economic
Policy Institute at the University of Illinois.
The new law maintains provisions for employers to count gratuities
to offset wages for workers such as food servers who regularly earn
tips. Tipped employees may be paid 60 percent of the hourly minimum
wage. These workers must still earn the minimum wage after receiving
tips.
Workers who are under 18 years old and work fewer than 650 hours in
a year earn a minimum wage of $8 per hour beginning January 1, up
from the old youth minimum wage of $7.75. The youth minimum wage
rate will gradually rise to $13 an hour by Jan. 1, 2025.
New Minimum
Wage Rates
1-1-2020 $9.25
7-1-2020 $10.00
1-1-2021 $11.00
1-1-2022 $12.00
1-1-2023 $13.00
1-1-2024 $14.00
1-1-2025 $15.00
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