Michigan workers making minimum wage will get slight raise in 2018

LANSING – Michigan workers making minimum wage will get a slight raise on January 1, 2018.

Effective January 1, 2018, the minimum hourly wage will increase to $9.25 an hour. This is an increase from $8.90, which went into effect at the start of 2017.

This is the final scheduled increase provided for in Public Act 138, the Workforce Opportunity Wage Act of 2014.

The training wage remains at $4.25 an hour for newly hired employees aged 16 to 19 for the first 90 days of employment. 

Employees covered by the overtime provisions of WOWA must be paid one and a half times their regular rate of pay for hours worked exceeding 40 hours in a work week.