By Carol Kuniholm

On Dec. 1, Pennsylvania’s legislature enjoyed its 30th annual automatic pay raise, bringing the base salary to $113,575 per year, the 3rd highest in the nation and more than double the average salary for U.S. state legislators.

Meanwhile, PA’s minimum wage workers remain stalled at $7.25 an hour, the wage put in place by Congress in 2009, a 10 cent raise from the most recent minimum wage legislation enacted in Pennsylvania in 2006.

PA’s mid-Atlantic neighbors have all raised minimum wage multiple times in the intervening years, with Maryland, New York, New Jersey and DC at $15 or more an hour. West Virginia, stuck at $8.60 from 2016 to 2025, will increase to $12.00 in 2016. Ohio will increase to $11.00.

Multiple minimum wage bills are introduced every legislative sess

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