minimum wage

Sarah Swanson, commissioner for the Montana Department of Labor and informational witness at the hearing, said approximately 4.1% of the state’s workforce makes minimum wage.

Montana’s minimum wage could be increased to $12.06 an hour if a bill introduced to the House on Monday passes.

The group behind a ballot measure that aims to ask Arizonans in November to raise the minimum wage turned in signatures Wednesday in the hopes of getting on the ballot.

Since 2006, Montana’s minimum wage has been automatically increased to account for inflation, after voters approved Initiative 151, adding a yearly cost-of-living adjustment.