pa last increased its state minimum wage by $2/hr. in 2006, when it went from $5.15 to $7.15. this was 3 years before a 2009 federal law increased the national #minimumwage to $7.25/hr. acc. to inflation calculators, that $7.25 = $8.49 a decade later in 2019, worth $1.24 less/hr.