Ohio’s Minimum Wage to Increase in 2025
Hourly employees at Ohio's minimum wage are guaranteed a small pay bump in the new year. Non tipped workers will increase to at least $10.70 an hour, a .25 cent raise. Tipped workers will increase to at least $5.35 an hour, a .10 cent raise.
“It’s great news for about 300,130 Ohio workers,” Hannah Halbert, Executive Director for Policy Matters Ohio said.
It’s an increase that the state has seen every year since 2006 when the Ohio AFL-CIO led a successful ballot effort to raise the wage and index it to inflation. As workers feel less stress on their wallets, analysts say it can also bring small health and social benefits.
“Economic security leads to things like lower suicide rates, better infant mortality, less firearm homicides,” Rob Moore, a Principal at Scioto Analysis said.