{"id":413554,"date":"2026-09-29T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413554\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:42:20","slug":"florida-minimum-wage-rises-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413554\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida minimum wage rises Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 More money will soon be hitting the pockets of Florida\u2019s minimum-wage workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Florida\u2019s minimum wage will increase to $15 an hour Wednesday, marking the final scheduled increase approved by voters through a constitutional amendment in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The amendment called for the state\u2019s minimum wage to increase by $1 each year until reaching $15 an hour in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The latest increase also applies to tipped workers. Their minimum direct wage, or base wage, will rise by $1 to $11.98 an hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790667740_709_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 More money will soon be hitting the pockets of Florida\u2019s minimum-wage workers. Florida\u2019s minimum wage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[163853,163857,12131,163852,163855,163856,163860,163859,163854,3192,139,141,140,163858],"class_list":["post-413554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-15-minimum-wage-florida","tag-florida-hourly-wage","tag-florida-minimum-wage","tag-florida-minimum-wage-2026","tag-florida-minimum-wage-increase","tag-florida-minimum-wage-workers","tag-florida-pay-raise","tag-florida-tipped-wage","tag-florida-wage-increase","tag-james-tutten","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-tipped-workers-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}