Georgia’s private sector minimum wage was last updated in 1999, and currently stands at ₾20 ($7.50) per month. That makes it one of the lowest monthly minimum wages in the world — about ...

ATLANTA — The new legislative session in Georgia is kicking into gear, and with that, there are no efforts to boost the state's minimum wage. One of those is H.B. 245, which would change a ...

Georgia’s minimum wage of $5.15 per hour is the lowest in the nation, but Wyoming also has the same minimum wage. Also, most of Georgia’s workers paid hourly rates earn the federal minimum of ...

Technically, state minimum wage law is $5.15, but it defaults to the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act since it is higher, at ...

Georgia's minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, according to the state's department of labor. However, there are some limited exceptions allowing the federal minimum wage of $7.25 to apply. Under ...

In the United States, minimum wage laws are set at the state and federal level. Although the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 since 2009, many states have increased their own minimum wage ...

ATLANTA -- Backers of a higher minimum wage have their sights set on Georgia – now that New York, California and Pennsylvania have raised theirs to fifteen dollars an hour. But the odds are much ...

For roughly 1.4 million people living in Georgia, a person earning minimum wage would need to work nearly four full-time jobs — or over 140 hours a week — to make monthly rent payments.

Georgia is ripe for this kind of economic message. ... Both Warnock and Ossoff support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but neither has made it a centerpiece of his campaign.

ATLANTA — The new legislative session in Georgia is kicking into gear, and with that, there are no efforts to boost the state's minimum wage. One of those is H.B. 245, which would change a ...