IKEA is raising the minimum hourly wage for its workers to $11.87, up 10 percent from $10.76 current minium. U.S. workers for the Swedish furniture giant will average $15.45. In June 2014 IKEA boosted pay 17 percent.
IKEA raise average minimum hourly wage to $10.76, approximately 50% of IKEA US retail co-workers to benefit. Manufacturing and distribution centers are already paying above the minimum wage.
A minimum wage increase to $10 per hour passed the legislature last week in California, while a Washington D.C. "living wage" law, a subjects of a blog at WwoodworkingNetwork, was vetoed by the mayor.