Florida's Minimum-Wage Workers Get 6-Cent Hourly Raise on Wednesday

Minimum-wage workers in Florida will get a small bump in their paychecks beginning Wednesday, when the rate rises from $7.25 per hour to $7.31.

The increase comes as a result of a lawsuit filed by the National Employment Law Project and Florida Legal Services, which sought to correct an error in the method used by the Agency for Workforce Innovation in calculating how the minimum-wage rate would be adjusted for inflation.

For tipped workers the resulting increase will be from $4.23 to $4.29 per hour.

This will result in over $28 million more earned and spent in the local economy this year by the lowest-paid of Floridas work force, said Jose Rodriguez, an attorney with Florida Legal Services.

Those pennies sure do add up.