Minimum-wage earners in Florida will take home bigger paychecks starting Tuesday.

The state’s minimum wage will increase by $1 per hour, as it has each year for the last five years, to $14. Tipped employees will also receive a base hourly pay bump to $10.98, plus tips.

Back in 2020, Floridians voted to gradually increase the state’s wage floor, then $8.56 an hour, to $15 by the end of September 2026.

By comparison, the federal minimum wage — $7.25 an hour — hasn’t increased since 2009. At $14 an hour, Florida now ties Hawaii for having the 17th-highest minimum wage in the U.S.

But whether that bump will make much of a difference to those earning it remains to be seen.

Entry-level workers in some of Florida’s highest-employment occupations — retail employees, customer-service agents, f

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