Emil Pocock, History and American Studies, Eastern Connecticut State University

US Minimum Wage Since 1938
      
$US    Date Effective

  .25    1938 October 
  .30    1939 October
  .40    1945 October
  .75    1950 January
1.00    1956 March
1.15    1961 September
1.25    1963 September
1.40    1967 February
1.60    1968 February
2.00    1974 May

 $US    Date Effective

2.10    1975 January
2.30    1976 January
2.65    1978 January
2.90    1979 January
3.10    1980 January
3.35    1981 January
3.80    1990 April
4.25    1991 April
4.75    1996 October
5.15    1997 September

For another way to judge wages and prices from 1913 to the present,
investigate options using the Consumer Price Index. 

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