Delaware Minimum Wage Changes: The Bottom Line

April 1st, 2007 Posted by Mark

The bottom line when it comes to the Delaware minimum wage law for employers is that they should have gotten themselves a new Delaware minimum wage poster a while back when the new minimum wage first went into effect in 2006. That poster also contains info on what the changes will be in 2007 and 2008.

As for the bottom line on the Delaware minimum wage and the federal minimum wage, there really isn’t one at the moment because the new federal minimum wage law has not been passed down I-95 from Delaware in Washington DC. And at the current moment, the Delaware minimum wage is higher than the federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour, so Delaware employers have to pay the higher state minimum wage.

When and if the federal minimum wage gets passed, then the employers in the state will have to pay the new federal minimum wage right? Well, not exactly. The Delaware minimum wage law puts the state minimum wage one step ahead of federal minimum wage. I mean to say, that when the federal minimum wage will be going up to $6.50 per hour in 2008, the Delaware minimum wage will be already up to $7.15 per hour.

The interesting situation will be in 2009, when the federal minimum wage goes up to $7.25 (again, if the new federal minimum wage law gets passed). Then the federal minimum wage in that case will be higher than the state minimum wage, and then employers liable to follow the Fair Labor Standards Act will then have to pay the higher federal minimum wage in Delaware. Local smaller Delaware employers could still pay the lower state minimum wage.

That is, if Delaware does not change its minimum wage law again between now and 2009 and make its minimum wage higher than $7.15 per hour.

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