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Utah lawmaker wants to nearly triple the state’s minimum wage; require pay transparency in job listings
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SALT LAKE CITY — A new bill on Utah’s Capitol Hill is seeking to make big changes to the state’s minimum wage and what companies have to put in their job listings.
Sen. Nate Blouin, D-Salt Lake City, is sponsoring a bill that, if passed, would raise Utah’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $20 an hour.
“(Twenty an hour) is a number that is actually livable.”Utah is one of 20 states that do not require employers to pay their workers more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Blouin’s bill would also require the state’s minimum wage to increase at least once a year to keep up with inflation.
In addition, the legislation would ban companies from posting job listings without information about the compensation for that given position.