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Detroit's minimum wage is a whopping $7.40 an hour, more than $2 above the federal minimum wage when it was enacted; and pressure groups are pushing for more. Additionally, any company contracting with the city must pay its employees $8.23 an hour if they offer benefits or $10.28 an hour if they do not offer benefits.
Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MICHIGAN â The state's minimum hourly wage increased from $7.40 to $8.15 Monday. The increase is part of legislation passed by state lawmakers in May that will raise the minimum wage to $9.25 by Jan. 1, 2018. Under the same legislation, the minimum wage for tipped workers increases to $3.10 an hour from $2.65 an hour. The next wage increase is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2016 when the minimum wage will increase to $8.50 an hour.