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As it stands now, however, Decker’s bill seems to be still working its way through the gears of politics in Wisconsin’s capital, so employers can feel somewhat content with the Wisconsin minimum wage as it stands now, as well as the Wisconsin minimum wage posters they have on their walls. Those still have the overall Wisconsin minimum wage rate at $6.50 per hour, as well as the Wisconsin minor employee minimum wage rate at $5.90 per hour, which is for workers under the age of 17.

For those workers who are so called “opportunity” workers in the state of Wisconsin—those employers under the age of 20 but not minors who have not yet workers 90 days on the job yet—their employers have a special Wisconsin minimum wage for them set at $5.90 per hour for those first 90 days.

Wisconsin also has a pretty high tip credit for employers of tipped employees, which sets the Wisconsin tipped employee minimum wage at the rate of $2.33 per hour—making the tip credit a total of $4.17 per hour. The tip credit for opportunity employees in the service industry is a little bit more. Their tipped employee minimum wage is set at $2.13 per hour. Of course, employers have to properly record the facts to show that their employees were bringing in enough tips to make up the difference and lift the employees’ hourly wage to at least the regular Wisconsin minimum wage.

All in all, if Decker’s bill does not go through, Wisconsin employers at the moment do not have to concern themselves with the goings in Washington DC, at least not until 2009, when the federal minimum wage, if passed, would raise to $7.25 per hour—a level above the current Wisconsin minimum wage. Of course, no matter what, Wisconsin employers would still need that new updated federal minimum wage poster.

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