Ohio Dept. of Commerce information<\/i><\/p>\n
COLUMBUS — Ohio\u2019s minimum wage is scheduled to remain unchanged for 2016 at $8.10 per hour for non-tipped employees and $4.05 per hour for tipped employees.\u00a0The minimum wage will apply to employees of businesses with annual gross receipts of more than $297,000 per year.<\/p>\n
The constitutional amendment passed by Ohio voters in November 2006 states that Ohio\u2019s minimum wage shall increase on January 1 of each year by the rate of inflation.\u00a0The state minimum wage is tied to the federally determined Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) for urban wage earners and clerical workers for the 12-month period prior to September.\u00a0This national CPI-W index declined 0.3 percent over the 12-month period from September 1, 2014, to August 31, 2015.<\/p>\n
The constitutional amendment states that the minimum wage level shall increase at the rate of inflation, therefore, a decrease in the CPI-W index means that the Ohio minimum wage will remain the same as in the previous year.\u00a0The constitutional amendment is available online:\u00a0https:\/\/www.legislature.ohio.gov\/laws\/ohio-constitution\/section?const=2.34a<\/p>\n
For employees at smaller companies with annual gross receipts of $297,000 or less per year after January 1, 2016, and for 14- and 15-year-olds, the state minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.\u00a0For these employees, the state wage is tied to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which requires an act of Congress and the President\u2019s signature to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ohio Dept. of Commerce information COLUMBUS — Ohio\u2019s minimum wage is scheduled to remain unchanged for 2016 at $8.10 per hour for non-tipped employees and $4.05 per hour for tipped employees.\u00a0The minimum wage will apply to employees of businesses with annual gross receipts of more than $297,000 per year. The constitutional amendment passed by Ohio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 21:31:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}