1 If your health insurance premiums are paid entirely by your employer or the government, you cannot deduct the cost. 2  If you have health insurance through your employer and your share of the premium is deducted from your paycheck pre-tax, you cannot deduct the cost because the premiums were tax-free already.
For example, an employee earning minimum wage and working a full 40 hours per week currently takes home a gross pay of $290 per week. In theory, a $1.75 minimum-wage hike would increase that employeeâs gross pay to $360 per week. However, thatâs only if that employee continues to work 40 hours per week, a scenario that will become increasingly less realistic under Obamacare, which gives employers a huge incentive to cut worker hours.
Effective January 1, 2017 the minimum wage for all industries will be $10.50 per hour for employers with 26 more or more employees and shall remain at $10 per hour for employers with 25 or fewer employees. The minimum wage shall be adjusted on a yearly basis through 2023 according to the pre-set schedule shown above. The minimum monthly salary for sheepherders is $1,866.88 per month for employers with 26 or more employees and $1,777.98 per month for employers with 25 or fewer employees.