{"id":27372,"date":"2015-12-30T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/minimum-wage-bump-scheduled-for-jan-1\/"},"modified":"2015-12-30T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:03:36","slug":"minimum-wage-bump-scheduled-for-jan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/minimum-wage-bump-scheduled-for-jan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage bump scheduled for Jan. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaskans making minimum wage should check their paychecks after the new year. Alaska\u2019s minimum wage rises to $9.75 per hour, rising from the current minimum wage of $8.75.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in other states, tips do not count toward the minimum wage \u2014 the posted wage is the absolute least that an employee can be paid by an employer.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum wage will be revised Jan. 1 each year after 2016 to account for inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum wage increase was part of a ballot measure approved by Alaska voters in November 2014. <\/p>\n<p>The measure also calls for the state\u2019s minimum wage to remain at least $1 above the federal minimum, should it be raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaskans making minimum wage should check their paychecks after the new year. Alaska\u2019s minimum wage rises to $9.75 per hour, rising from the current minimum wage of $8.75. Unlike in other states, tips do not count toward the minimum wage \u2014 the posted wage is the absolute least that an employee can be paid by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-27372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27372"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}