{"id":30094,"date":"2021-01-07T05:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=30094?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2021-01-07T05:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:11:02","slug":"montana-increases-minimum-wage-to-8-75-20210106051626","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2021\/01\/07\/montana-increases-minimum-wage-to-8-75-20210106051626\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Montana Increases Minimum Wage To $8.75"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montana Department of Labor  and Industry reminds Montanans  that workers earning minimum wage should now be getting paid $8.75 per hour. The rate increase became  effective on Jan. 1.<br \/>\n\t  An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Montana workers \u2014 2 percent of the workforce \u2014 received hourly wages less than $8.75 per hour in 2020 and are likely to receive higher  wages due to the 2021 minimum wage increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30094"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=30094"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=30094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}