Washington State Minimum Wage 2024 Exempt. Washington state has announced its new minimum wage, exempt salary level, and other compensation levels for 2025. The washington state department of labor & industries (l&i) determines minimum thresholds using a multiplier of the state minimum wage, and this year the salary thresholds are the same.

For employees fourteen to fifteen years old, the minimum wage will also increase from $13.38 to $13.84. The washington state minimum wage rate for nonexempt employees sixteen years of age and older will increase 3.4 percent over the 2023 rate to $16.28 per hour in 2024.