Indexing the Minimum Wage

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The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research

Fix it and forget it: Index the minimum wage to growth in average wages. Heidi Shierholz

From the Economic Policy Institute, a persuasive case for indexing the minimum wage to average wages instead of to consumer prices. December 2009

Securing the Wage Floor. Michael Ettlinger

From the Economic Policy Institute, the details of indexing the minimum wage and the debate over the consequences of doing so. October 2006  

Home pages from two of the nations where the national minimum wage is regularly adjusted by a government body.

Washington State Minimum Wage Information

The state Department of Labor and Industries' page on the minimum wage with information about its yearly recalculation.

Florida Minimum Wage Amendment, 2004

The full text of Florida's amendment.

Automatic Adjustment of the Minimum Wage: Linking the Minimum Wage to Productivity. Oren M. Levin-Waldman

From 1998, an economist's analysis of the advantages of linking the minimum wage to median wages and to productivity increases.

San Francisco Minimum Wage Ordinance. Office of Labor Standards Enforcement

In 2003, San Francisco approved a city minimum wage to be indexed to the Consumer Price Index.  For 2011, this wage is $9.92 per hour.

The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research