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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 â Michigan workers who make the minimum wage are getting a 40-cents-an-hour raise. The state hourly minimum went from $8.50 to $8.90 on Sunday. Itâs the second straight yearly increase under a 2014 law that gradually raised the wage by 25 percent. The 40-cent increase means those working full time will earn $16 more a week, or $832 a year. Many making the minimum wage work part time and tend to be younger. At $8.90, Michiganâs minimum wage is 15th-highest among states. Nineteen states rang in the year with an increase in the minimum. The state Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives, citing federal data, says 101,000 people in Michigan were working at or below the federal minimum in 2015.