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Workspan Daily
01/19/2024
States That Raised Minimum Wage on Jan. 1 Alaska: $11.73;Arizona: $14.35;California: $16.00;Colorado: $14.42;Connecticut: $15.69;Delaware: $13.25;Hawaii: $14.00;Illinois: $14.00;Maine: $14.15;Maryland: $15.00;Michigan: $10.33;Minnesota: $10.85;Missouri: $12.30;Montana: $10.30;Nebraska: $12.00;New Jersey: $15.13;New York: $15.00 ($16.00 for New York City and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester);Ohio: $10.45;Rhode Island: $14.00;South Dakota: $11.20;Vermont: $13.67;Washington: $16.28; Contributing Factors Several factors are contributing to the widespread increase in minimum wages, according to Tauseef Rahman, a career practice growth leader at Mercer.
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Workspan Daily
08/27/2025
Automating old and outdated rewards programs may provide some minor gains in productivity, but organizations that first take the time to modernize their job architectures, consolidate their job catalogs and simplify their incentive programs, to name a few, can then leverage AI to perform more sophisticated analytics that result in meaningful insight.
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Workspan Daily
10/07/2025
Gordon Frost, Mercer’s Global Rewards Solution Leader , Workspan Magazine article; For Everyone Traditional Job Architecture Career Streams Collide with Modern Work , Workspan Daily article;Critical Considerations for Crafting an Effective Job Architecture , Workspan Daily article;A Framework for Fair and Consistent Pay Decisions , Workspan Daily article;5 Ways Comp Pros Can Maximize Their Market Management Tool , Workspan Daily article;Aligning Job Architecture and Market Data for Compensation Success , on-demand webinar;
Organizations today are operating in an environment of constant change.
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Workspan Magazine
08/15/2022
More than half of organizations (56%) use city/metro area as the indicator on which geographic pay differentials are based, and cost of labor is overwhelmingly a greater influence than cost of living for determining the pay policy approach.
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Workspan Daily
10/06/2023
Judge Affirms Pay Raise for Food Delivery Workers in New York A judge said New York City regulators could move forward and raise minimum wages for app-based food delivery workers, ruling against three delivery giants that had challenged the rule, the New York Times reports .
Workspan Daily
05/01/2024
Supreme Court found the City of St.
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Workspan Daily Plus+
02/02/2026
Wage-and-Hour Compliance
Compliance Area
To-Do Item
Minimum wage
Confirm whether the state or city minimum wage exceeds the federal rate.
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Workspan Magazine
02/01/2021
When the workforce is spread around the city — or the world — it’s all too easy for leaders to isolate and avoid the most crucial conversations.
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Workspan Daily
04/29/2022
In
response, members of Exxon’s PRIDE Houston Chapter are refusing to represent
the company at the city’s June 25 Pride celebration, according to an employee
group email also seen by Bloomberg.
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Workspan Daily
03/14/2023
Other states and municipalities, such as New York City , have similar versions of those laws that went into effect in 2023 .
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