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To: combjelly who wrote (10471)	2/11/2017 9:41:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364843

The national minimum was $7.25 starting in 2009. It was six and change before that. Employers in Kansas are subject to the national minimum wage law. True there are exemptions to federal minimum wages, but most employees are exempt from it (and there are exemptions to Kansas' minimum was well). For example tipped employees can be paid only $2.13/hour. Tipped employees in Kansas - Also can be tipped $2.13 an hour. Employees under 20 can be paid a $4.25 training wage for 90 days under the federal standard, and in Kansas? They can be paid a $4.25 training wage for 90 days. Full time students can be paid $6.16/hour for up to 20 hours work. In Kansas the same. Any state minimum below the federal minimum is almost meaningless, unless the state doesn't have the carve-outs. For example if Kansas had a $5 minimum without tip credit, then all tipped workers would still have to get $5/hour rather than the $2.13 federal minimum, but Kansas does allow for tip credit. Its possible Kansas' increase increased the minimum for actually zero people in 2009. If it increased wages for anyone it would have been a very small select group since Kansas has all the main carve-outs from the normal minimum that federal law has. Can you even find a category of people that would get more? I looked and I couldn't. Is there any reason at all to think it even raised one person's wages?