arizona minimum wage

Flagstaff's minimum wage will increase to $17.85 an hour on January 1 — 40 cents higher than the current minimum.

A current Arizona ballot initiative would cut the pay of tipped workers and that has some local wage advocates worried.

Two competing minimum wage initiatives will likely appear on Arizona’s ballot this November. But the group behind one is suing the other, claiming they’re illegally misleading voters.

Flagstaff consistently has one of the highest minimum wage rates in the state at three dollars higher than the hourly state minimum of $14.35.

State lawmakers are moving to penalize cities financially that have a minimum wage higher than the rest of the state.

The state's minimum wage is set to rise to $13.85 an hour — an increase of $1.05 — starting Jan. 1.

Flagstaff has been gradually raising its minimum wage in recent years. On Jan. 1 it’ll increase to $15.50 an hour. The wage is more than $3 above the state’s and Arizona's highest.

Tucson voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to gradually increase the minimum wage in Arizona’s second most populous city to $15 an hour by 2025.

The Arizona Senate voted Thursday to raise Arizona’s super-low $240 maximum weekly unemployment benefit to $320, just over two weeks after the House…