Current North Carolina Minimum Wage 2025. An act increasing the minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour by 2025, and then adjusting the minimum wage automatically each year by increases in the cost of living; State minimum wage rates in 2025 effective january 1, more than 20 states raised their minimum wage rates in response to inflation or according to previously enacted.

The differences between various wage types, including federal minimum wage, tipped wage, and subminimum wage. Click any state for details about the minimum wage, exemptions, and other state labor laws.