{"id":420168,"date":"2025-12-02T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/420168\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:36:15","slug":"what-is-arizonas-minimum-wage-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/420168\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Arizona’s minimum wage for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX \u2013 For the 10th consecutive year, minimum wage workers in Arizona are getting a raise in 2026.<\/p>\n

Effective Jan. 1, Arizona\u2019s minimum wage for employees who don\u2019t regularly receive tips will climb to $15.15, the Industrial Commission of Arizona announced<\/a> earlier this year. Employers can pay tipped workers $3 under the minimum.<\/p>\n

The new pay requirement represents a 3% raise of 45 cents from the 2025 rate of $14.70<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arizona\u2019s minimum wage<\/a> has more than doubled since 2011, when it was $7.35, or 10 cents above the federal rate. The federal minimum wage is still $7.25.<\/p>\n

History of Arizona\u2019s minimum wage<\/p>\n

Arizona did not have a minimum wage law until 2007. Up to that point, the Grand Canyon State used the federal rate.<\/p>\n

Voters established a state minimum wage through a 2006 ballot measure, setting the rate at $6.75 in 2007. The law dictated annual cost-of-living increases, and the rate inched up to $8.05 by 2016.<\/p>\n

That year, voters approved<\/a> a new measure that bumped Arizona\u2019s minimum wage to $10 in 2017, with automatic annual raises tied to inflation as measured through the national Consumer Price Index. The wage has risen by more than 50% since then.<\/p>\n

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