Connecticut’s minimum wage rises to $14 an hour July 1, up $1 and cheering low-wage workers while adding to business owners’ worries about labor shortages and inflation.
It’s the fourth annual increase since 2019 and the next raise, to $15 an hour, is set for June 1, 2023, following a national campaign by organized labor and its allies in state legislatures. Increases will be automatic beginning in 2024, pegged to an index calculated by the U.S. Department of Labor.
State law signed by Gov. Ned Lamont in 2019 when the minimum wage was $10.10 an hour. Business, particularly small employers. fiercely opposed the legislation as financially burdensome and a blow to workplace flexibility.
