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Minimum Wage Workers By State: Statistics, Totals. The number of Americans making the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour or less was 3.3 million in 2013. That total accounts for about 4.3 percent of the hourly workforce, a share that has gradually declined in recent years.
Top 10 states for the minimum wage. California and New York have made headlines by moving to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour -- though not right away. In fact, under California's law, the $15 level won't be reached until 2022. But the 2 populous states are already among those where the minimum wage is highest. Nearly 30 states and the District of Columbia go beyond the federal minimum wage, which has been set at $7.25 an hour since 2009.