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The Nevada Labor Commissioner announced that, effective July 1, 2010, Nevada’s minimum wage increased as follows:
- Employers not offering qualifying health insurance benefits must pay employees a minimum wage rate of $8.25 per hour (up from $7.55 per hour).
- Employers offering qualifying health insurance benefits must pay employees a minimum wage rate of at least $7.25 per hour (increased from $6.55 per hour).
Additionally, also effective July 1, 2010, the Illinois minimum wage increased as follows:
Employees aged 18 and older must be paid $8.25 per hour.- Employees aged 18 and older may be paid a training wage of $7.75 per hour for the first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment, unless that individual is a day or temporary laborer, or he or she is only occasionally or irregularly employed for less than 90 days.
- Employees under 18 may be paid $7.75 per hour.
- Tipped employees must be paid at least $4.95 per hour after 90 days of employment. During the initial 90-day period, tipped employees can be paid $4.65 per hour.