Civilian federal employees would not get a base or locality pay increase in 2027 under an alternative pay plan sent to Congress in late August. The same letter proposes raises of 5% to 7% for active-duty troops depending on experience, 3.6% for other uniformed service members and 3.8% for federal law enforcement officers. Nothing here…

Amazon is giving its core-operations employees a 20% discount on purchases made inside Whole Foods Market stores, on top of a 10% discount on Whole Foods grocery orders placed online, starting Oct. 1. The same Sept. 16 announcement adds a banking benefit with $0 overdraft fees and $0 monthly maintenance fees, plus up to $300…

Denver’s citywide minimum wage will rise to $19.84 an hour on January 1, 2027, keeping the city’s wage floor well above the rate that applies across the rest of Colorado. The increase comes from a separate city formula, not the state’s own annual adjustment, which is why Denver’s minimum wage has moved on a different…

Colorado’s tipped workers will see their guaranteed base wage climb to $12.69 an hour starting January 1, 2027, under the annual adjustment the state’s labor department just announced. The increase moves in step with a larger statewide minimum-wage change that touches every hourly worker in Colorado, not only those who earn tips. For servers, bartenders…

Two competing plans for federal civilian pay in 2027 are moving through Washington at the same time, and only one of them can take effect without a new law passing. A pay freeze proposed by President Trump is on track to become the default rate for most civilian federal employees, while a Democratic bill promising…

The Labor Department’s weekly unemployment report released Thursday showed the nation’s layoff count easing even as one state’s climbed sharply. Nationally, seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims fell to 197,000 for the week, a decrease of 1,000 from the prior week’s revised level. Kentucky moved in the opposite direction, with new claims in the state rising…

Arizona’s next minimum-wage adjustment is not yet official, but the arithmetic behind it is public. Under a formula written into state law, the Industrial Commission of Arizona raises the wage floor every January by the percentage the Consumer Price Index rose over the prior August-to-August period, then rounds the result to the nearest five cents.…

On September 30, Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries will do what it does every year at that point on the calendar: turn a federal inflation index into next year’s minimum wage. The current rate, $17.13 an hour, has applied since January 1, and whatever figure the department calculates this month will take effect on…

Minnesota will apply the same $11.87-an-hour minimum wage to every employer, regardless of size, when the rate rises on January 1 — the third increase since the state closed the gap between what large and small employers were required to pay. The Department of Labor and Industry sets the new figure each year through an…

Governor Ned Lamont announced in early August that Connecticut’s minimum wage will rise to $17.48 an hour on January 1, a 54-cent increase over the current $16.94. The change did not come from a fresh vote in the legislature. It came from a formula written into state law seven years ago, one that ties the…