Arizona 2015 Minimum Wage Increase
The Industrial Commission of Arizona (ICA) announced an increase of Arizona’s minimum wage to $8.05 per hour effective January 1, 2015. The $0.15 raise is a 1.9 percent increase over the 2014 rate of $7.90 per hour affecting more than 24,000 Arizona minimum wage workers.
The ICA administers and enforces the State’s minimum wage
Arizona Tipped Workers Minimum Wage
Employees who are tipped earn a base rate of $5.05 per hour thanks to a $3 tip credit.
Tipped workers include people who customarily receives tips, typically in the restaurant, hospitality, and personal services industries:
- Food servers
- Bussers
- Bartenders
- Bellhops / Valets
- Car wash attendants
- Hairdressers / Barbers
Arizona Annual Minimum Wage Calculation
Arizona’s minimum wage can be adjusted annually based on increases in the cost of living based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Any adjustments to the Arizona minimum wage are rounded to the nearest nickel (five-cent increments).
Arizona is one of 10 states in the U.S. that indexes the minimum wage to adjust to the cost of living:
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Florida
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nevada
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Vermont
- Washington
History of Arizona Minimum Wage
The State enacted the Arizona Minimum Wage Act (Proposition 202) in 2006 after a successful ballot measure. The table below shows Arizona’s minimum wage rates since 2006 and the percentage of increase for each year, if any.
| Year | Minimum Wage | % Change |
| 2006 | $5.15* | NA |
| 2007 | $6.75 | 31.068% |
| 2008 | $6.90 | 2.222% |
| 2009 | $7.25 | 5.072% |
| 2010 | $7.25 | 0.000% |
| 2011 | $7.35 | 1.379% |
| 2012 | $7.65 | 4.082% |
| 2013 | $7.80 | 1.961% |
| 2014 | $7.90 | 1.282% |
| 2015 | $8.05 | 1.899% |
*Pre-indexed rate.
Arizona Minimum Wage Poster
Arizona employers are required to display the most current Arizona Minimum Wage Poster, which is included as part of GovDocs’ Arizona Workplace Poster Packages, along with other required postings:
- Unemployment Compensation
- Workers’ Compensation Insurance (Memo)
- Employee Safety & Health Protection
- Prohibition of Discrimination
- Work Exposure to Bodily Fluids
- Constructive Discharge
- Minimum Wage
- No Smoking Poster
- E-Verify
- Right to Work
- Work Exposure to MRSA, Spinal Meningitis, or TB
Arizona employers can save 20% off all workplace poster purchases using GovDocs coupon code 2015MIN.
Ohio 2015 Minimum Wage Increase Announced
The Ohio Department of Commerce announced the State’s 2015 minimum wage rate of $8.10 for non-tipped workers, which is effective January 1, 2015.
Ohio’s 2015 minimum wage gives low-wage earners an hourly boost of 15 cents over the 2014 rate of $7.95.
What is the Minimum Wage for Non-Tipped Workers in Ohio?
Ohio’s minimum wage rate for tipped employees increased to $4.05 per hour.
Which Employers are Required to Pay the Minimum Wage?
Ohio employers with annual gross receipts of more than $297,000 per year are required to pay employees at least the minimum wage.
Why Does the Ohio Minimum Wage Change So Often?
The Ohio minimum wage is adjusted annually to reflect fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The 2015 minimum wage rate represents an 18 percent increase over the 2007 rate after voters amended the State Constitution (Issue 2) to index the minimum wage, meaning that if inflation increases, the rate will adjust to help offset the effect on low-wage workers.
Ohio minimum-wage workers have received an average increase of 16 cents each year in the past eight years to compensate for the rate of inflation.
Ohio Minimum Wage Poster
GovDocs provides the Ohio Minimum Wage posting and other posting required for Ohio workplaces as part of the GovDocs Ohio Workplace Poster Packages, which includes:
- Unemployment Insurance
- Minimum Wage
- Minor Labor Law
- Ohio Fair Employment Practices Law
- Rebuttable Presumption Law
- No Smoking
Ohio employers can save 20% off all workplace posters using the GovDocs coupon code 2015MIN.
What’s the Difference Between Mandatory and Non-Mandatory Changes? Part 2
Utah State Capitol (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Here’s a typical scenario: your business receives an email, telephone call, or a snail-mail letter telling you that posters for your state have changed and that your posters are now out of compliance.
How can you be sure that they aren’t just feeding you a line? After all, they’re in business to sell as many posters as possible.
Three recent employment posting changes to Utah state postings serve as a good example. Several GovDocs’ competitors listed these changes as mandatory changes requiring customers with locations in Utah to purchase new posters.
- Workers’ Compensation Notice (English): Verbiage addition to the poster that states employees have 180 days to give notice of injury. (Utah law has required the 180-day limit for more than 10 years. The English version now mirrors the 180-day language already found on the Spanish version.)
- Workers’ Compensation Notice (Spanish): Reformatting/slight text changes.
- Workplace Safety and Health in the State of Utah: Includes language that whistleblower complaints must be filed within 30 days.
GovDocs uses a very thorough research methodology when it comes to determining whether a posting change is mandatory or not. Our Research Department delved deeper with qualified members of the Utah Occupational Safety and Health (Utah OSHA) and confirmed that the three changes mentioned above are not mandatory changes, and Utah employers who display the previous version of each of these posting are in compliance.
As mentioned in Part 1 of this series, postings in the U.S. experience more than 200 labor law changes each year, but government issuing agencies deem approximately only 40% as mandatory changes requiring replacement of existing postings or the addition of new postings.
If you’re responsible for keeping a few locations compliant with labor law posting requirements, you many not mind spending an extra $30 here and there just to be “on the safe side.” But if you’re responsible for hundreds – or thousands – of locations, posting updates can be an expensive and confusing proposition.
GovDocs eliminates unnecessary spending on labor law postings and logistics for large, multi‐location employers with extreme accuracy.
That’s why many large employers – including 30% of Fortune 50 companies – rely on GovDocs to keep current with the latest state and federal labor law posting requirements. GovDocs actively monitors all changes from more than 500 state and federal agencies in order to provide complete and accurate posters that keep our customers compliant.
Learn more about how GovDocs helps business like yours remain compliant.