The data displays the minimum wage rates in the different states across the U.S. as of January 1, 2018. There is no minimum wage law present in the state of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. As seen in many states, 7.25 USD was the Federal minimum wage rate. The District of Columbia has the highest minimum wage rate at 12.5 USD per hour. In 2016, high school graduates with no college education accounted for the highest number of minimum wage earners with some 667 thousand such workers. At this time there were around 245 thousand workers with a bachelor's degree and higher earning minimum wage.
