Upon inception it was set at $0.25. It is now $7.25.

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    If you lived in the US, your numbers (and your memory) are absolutely incorrect.

    Editing to add info:

    Assuming the previous commenter is actually 40 years old and lived in the US, the minimum wage would have either been $4.75 or $5.15 when they were 14 (not $3.25)…

    In fact, minimum wage in the US has never been $3.25.

    https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart

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      1 year ago

      State minimums can be different for certain jobs, and certain jobs are exempt from minimum wage and have a lower set wage. Tipped workers are the ones everyone knows about, but farm workers and others are also exempt.

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        1 year ago

        That in no way contradicts anything I said.

        The person I was replying to never said they were exempt from minimum wage… They said what they misremembered the minimum wage to have been.

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          My point is they may have been remembering the minimum as it was relevant to the work they did at the time, not necessarily the federal minimum.

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            It is illegal for a company in any state to pay lower than federal minimum wage regardless whether or not the state’s minimum wage is set lower.

            Full stop.