The fight for a living wage.

Here’s how the passage of Act 114 (2022) will impact the state minimum wage and corresponding tip penalty.

How much could food prices go up if Hawaiʻi raises the minimum wage to $18 by 2026?

There are over 88,000 minimum wage workers in Hawaiʻi, making up 14 percent of our total workforce. These are our friends, our family members, our neighbors, our students, and even our teachers.

Defined as “the amount of money that individuals and families require to meet their basic needs without government and/or other subsidies,” DBEDT finds a single adult with no children needs to earn $19.56/ hour in 2022.

From business owners to student workers, labor organizers to land owners, pediatricians to mental healthcare service providers, media publishers to sitting legislators—support for a living wage comes from all over the community.

Decades of research has shown that past minimum wage increases have achieved their intended effects: raising pay for low-wage workers with little to no negative impact on employment.