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Description	English: Timeline of federal minimum hourly wage for nonfarm workers for the United States. In nominal and inflation-adjusted dollars. FRED source page says it is inflation adjusted via the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average (CPIAUCSL). At that source page you can run cursor over graph to see minimum wages pop up for specific months. From the peak value of $12.74 in February 1968 it declines to $7.25 in July 2021. That is a decline of $5.49, or 43% (5.49 / 12.74).
Date	8 February 2020 - date of first upload to the Commons. See file history below for date of latest upload.
Source	FRED Graph. Click the download link there, and choose PDF in order to get a large version of the chart. Use Adobe Reader, etc. to take a snapshot of the chart (edit menu > more > take a snapshot). Erase and add text as needed with freeware IrfanView or other image editor. See also just the nominal (non-inflation-adjusted) timeline from FRED: Federal Minimum Hourly Wage for Nonfarm Workers for the United States. Data sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
Author	Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) is a database maintained by the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Other versions	File:Timeline of federal minimum hourly wage for the United States (including inflation-adjusted). Congressional Research Service.gif

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current	20:17, 14 December 2022	1,644 × 1,166 (200 KB)	Timeshifter	Clearer, larger text at top. Top and bottom line noted.
	13:33, 24 November 2022	1,648 × 1,159 (164 KB)	Timeshifter	Updated through July 1, 2021
	09:17, 9 February 2020	2,169 × 1,522 (190 KB)	Timeshifter	User created page with UploadWizard