Readable version: Local minimum wage rates, 2026 and 2027, explained state by state. All site datasets: open data · data roundups.
What this dataset covers
Each US city, county and state-set region we confirmed on an official page with a general minimum wage above its state's: the 2026 rate, the 2027 rate and its start date where announced, employer-size tiers and tipped cash wages where the source states them.
Most often unconfirmed in this release: rate_2027 (31), rate_2026 (1). 21 jurisdictions have their own page on the site (CA-CUPERTINO, CA-DALY-CITY, CA-FOSTER-CITY, CA-HALF-MOON-BAY, CA-HAYWARD, CA-PALO-ALTO, CA-SAN-DIEGO, CA-SAN-MATEO, CA-SAN-MATEO-COUNTY, CO-BOULDER, CO-BOULDER-COUNTY, CO-DENVER, CO-EDGEWATER, MD-HOWARD-COUNTY, MN-MINNEAPOLIS, MN-SAINT-PAUL, NM-LAS-CRUCES, NM-SANTA-FE, WA-BURIEN, WA-RENTON, WA-SEATTLE); their rows also carry the explanatory text and all sources shown there.
Field dictionary
| Field | Meaning | Type | In this release |
|---|---|---|---|
jurisdiction_code | Row id: the state's postal code and the locality's name (for example WA-SEATTLE). | string | 54 of 54 filled |
jurisdiction | Locality name and state code (for example Seattle, WA). | string | 54 of 54 filled |
state_code | Two-letter postal code of the state. | string | 54 of 54 filled |
state | State name. | string | 54 of 54 filled |
name | City, county or region name. | string | 54 of 54 filled |
kind | city, county, unincorporated county (areas outside the county's cities), city and county, or state-set region. | string (code) | 54 of 54 filled: city (43), unincorporated county (5), county (3), state-set region (2), city and county (1) |
rate_2026 | General hourly minimum wage in 2026 (the rate in effect at the end of 2026; for tiered places, the largest employers' rate). | number (US dollars) | 53 of 54 filled; $13.01 to $21.78 |
rate_2026_from | Date the 2026 rate took effect, when the official page states it. | date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 38 of 54 filled |
rate_2027 | 2027 hourly minimum wage, only when an official page announced it; null means not yet announced. | number (US dollars) | 23 of 54 filled; $13.47 to $22.49 |
effective_2027 | Date the 2027 rate takes effect. | date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 22 of 54 filled |
rate_2027_note | What the official page says about the 2027 rate. Present only for jurisdictions that have their own page on the site. | string (free text) | 21 of 54 filled |
covers | Who the rate covers, as the official page describes it. Present only for jurisdictions that have their own page on the site. | string (free text) | 13 of 54 filled |
variants | Other rates by employer size: label, rate_2026, rate_2027, note. Present only for jurisdictions that have their own page on the site. | array of objects | 3 of 54 filled |
tipped.cash_2026 | Lowest cash wage for tipped employees in 2026, where the official page states one. | number (US dollars) | 8 of 54 filled; $4 to $16.27 |
tipped.cash_2027 | Lowest cash wage for tipped employees in 2027, where the official page states one. | number (US dollars) | 5 of 54 filled; $5.39 to $18.95 |
unconfirmed | Fields the official sources read did not confirm for this row. Those values are null. | array of strings | 32 of 54 rows list at least one |
source_urls | Links to the official sources (all of them for jurisdictions with their own page; the main linked source for the others). | array of strings | 54 of 54 filled |
checked | When the row's sources were opened (YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). A row with no official source carries the date of the check that found none. | date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 54 of 54 filled |
page_url | The page on mcc-solutionsnj.com that explains this row. | string (URL) | 54 of 54 filled |
Preview: the first 10 rows
jurisdiction | state_code | name | rate_2026 | rate_2027 | effective_2027 | checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellingham, WA | WA | Bellingham | 19.13 | null | null | 2026-11 |
| Belmont, CA | CA | Belmont | 18.95 | null | null | 2026-11 |
| Berkeley, CA | CA | Berkeley | 19.61 | null | null | 2026-11 |
| Boulder County, CO | CO | Boulder County | 16.82 | 17.43 | 2027-01-01 | 2026-11 |
| Boulder, CO | CO | Boulder | 16.82 | 18.17 | 2027-01-01 | 2026-11 |
| Burien, WA | WA | Burien | 21.78 | 22.49 | 2027-01-01 | 2026-11 |
| Burlingame, CA | CA | Burlingame | 17.86 | null | null | 2026-11 |
| Cook County, IL | IL | Cook County | 15.4 | null | null | 2026-11 |
| Cupertino, CA | CA | Cupertino | 18.7 | 19.25 | 2027-01-01 | 2026-11 |
| Daly City, CA | CA | Daly City | 17.5 | 18.1 | 2027-01-01 | 2026-11 |
7 of 19 columns shown; the downloads have every column in full.
Download formats
The CSV has one row per jurisdiction and one column per field above, UTF-8, comma-separated. Nested fields use dotted names (tipped.cash_2026); lists are joined with | , and lists of objects become key: value; key: value items. The JSON keeps types (numbers, true/false, null, arrays) and includes this dictionary, the license and the checked date.
License
License: free to copy, share and adapt, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Attribution required: credit "MCC Solutions" and link to this dataset page (https://mcc-solutionsnj.com/data/local-min-wage). The cite box below has text ready to paste.
Accuracy
Accuracy: every fact comes from an official government page as it read when checked (November 2026 for this release). Anything those pages did not confirm is null and named in the row's unconfirmed list; a null that is not on the list means the point does not apply or the source states none. This is general information, not legal or tax advice. We are not lawyers, and MCC Solutions is not a law firm.
Cite this data
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit MCC Solutions and link to https://mcc-solutionsnj.com/data/local-min-wage.
Changelog
- November 2026: sources checked for all 54 jurisdictions; this release has 19 fields, 402 confirmed values and 32 unconfirmed items.
- Downloads are generated from the data files on each request, so a corrected file shows up in the CSV and JSON straight away; a new entry is added here when the sources are checked again.