North Carolina State Workers Get $15 Hourly Minimum Wage

North Carolina’s state workers will be paid a minimum salary of $31,200, or $15 an hour, under a budget that state lawmakers enacted over the governor’s veto.

The $23.9 billion spending plan (S.B. 99) for the fiscal year that begins July 1 also provides teachers with an average pay increase of about 6.5 percent, along with a pay hike of at least 2 percent for noneducators employed by the state.

North Carolina is now the first in the nation to establish a $15 minimum wage for its public employees, Robert Broome, executive director of the State Employees Association ...