United States: Toll-Free 800 Numbers. United States: Toll-Free 800 Numbers. Here is a listing of some Common U.S. Travel Related Business 800 numbers. Toll-Free number range is 800, 866, 877 and 888. These phone calls are free to the person making the call. The owner of the called 800 number pays for the cost of these phone calls.
Minimum wage. A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers must legally pay their workers. Equivalently, it is the price floor below which workers may not sell their labor. Although minimum wage laws are in effect in many jurisdictions, differences of opinion exist about the benefits and drawbacks of a minimum wage.
San Francisco has the nation's highest hourly minimum wage at $10.74. Voters there will decide in November whether to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour in 2018. The minimum wage in Washington state is $9.32 an hour. Earlier this year, Minnesota raised the state's guaranteed wage by more than $3, to $9.50, by 2016. California, Connecticut and Maryland also have passed laws increasing their respective wages to $10 or more in coming years.