{"id":414835,"date":"2026-09-30T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414835\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:00:08","slug":"floridas-minimum-wage-rose-to-15-00-per-hour-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414835\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s minimum wage rose to $15.00 per hour &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Florida\u2019s minimum wage officially rose to $15.00 per hour on Wednesday, completing a gradual statewide increase approved by voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The $15.00 per hour rate went into effect Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, and will remain effective through Dec. 31, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida voters established the wage policy by approving a constitutional amendment on Nov. 3, 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The approved measure set a structured schedule to gradually increase the baseline wage each year until reaching the $15.00 per hour target in September 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting in September 2027, state officials will resume adjusting the minimum wage annually based on inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those annual inflation adjustments will determine the new rates taking effect on Jan. 1 of each following year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Florida\u2019s minimum wage officially rose to $15.00 per hour on Wednesday, completing a gradual statewide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-414835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414835","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=414835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}