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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.
LANSING, MI -- Michigan employees earning minimum wage will ring in a new rate of pay with the new year on Friday, when minimum wage bumps up to $8.50. Minimum wage had been $7.40 in Michigan before 2014, when legislators passed a bill that raises it gradually to $9.25 by 2018. It increased to $8.15 on Sept. 1, 2014 and will raise to $8.50 on Jan. 1, 2016. Two more scheduled raises will increase it to $9.25 by 2018.