Minimum Wage Washington 2025 Salary Increase. For the second year in a row, washington has the highest statewide minimum wage in the country. 2025 minimum wage announcement poster.

Effective january 1, 2025, the minimum wage rate in washington state will increase to $16.28 per hour for employees sixteen years of age and older, the. Employees fourteen to fifteen years of age must earn at least $13.84 per hour in 2025.