ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — St. Louis County leaders are taking steps to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for county employees by 2022.
County Executive Sam Page announced Thursday he’s implementing a new minimum wage.
The increase will benefit non-seasonal, full-time employees as well as contracted employees. These workers haven’t seen a minimum wage raise in a decade.
“These are jobs that we consider to be an important part of the function of county government and we believe that they deserve a raise,” Page said.
The minimum wage will increase to $13 an hour this year. It’ll go up to $14 an hour in 2021 and finally $15 an hour in 2022.