Like its neighbor Pennsylvania, West Virginia will have a new minimum wage come 2007. The West Virginia 2007 Minimum Wage will increase to $6.55 per hour come July 2007. It will then increase again to $7.25 come July 2008.
These new rates are for all employers in the state with at least six or more employees on their books, and with at least $500,000 in annual gross income. The new West Virginia 2007 Minimum Wage will not work for, however, any employer that is involved in interstate commerce.
Interstate commerce could involve selling goods or services in states other than West Virginia. Or a business engaged in interstate commerce could have employees or offices working or stationed in another state besides West Virginia.
That leads the current West Virginia 2007 Minimum Wage to only affect about 2,000 of the state’s 20,000 workers who normally earn the minimum wage. West Virginia lawmakers have already said that in the next session they will try to create a new law that will cover the gaps left by the current West Virginia 2007 Minimum Wage.
The West Virginia 2007 Minimum Wage will also cover, as if, so-called tipped employees. They receive a tip credit raise too under the West Virginia 2007 Minimum Wage, from $1.03 per hour to $1.17 per hour. By July 2007, their new minimum pay rate for tip credits will increase to $1.31 per hour, and at July 2008, it will go up to $1.45 per hour. Their actual cash pay rate for a minimum wage will also go up thanks to the West Virginia 2007 Minimum Wage.
The current cash wage rate for tipped employees is $4.68 per hour, and that will go up to $5.24 per hour in 2007. By 2008, that wage will go up to $5.80 per hour.
