(a) Except as provided in Section 6-105-030 of this Code, every Employer shall pay to each Covered Employee for each hour of work performed for that Employer, no less than the greater of: (1) the minimum hourly Wage set by the Minimum Wage Law; (2) the minimum hourly Wage set by the Fair Labor Standards Act; or (3) the City's minimum hourly Wage.
(b) The City minimum hourly Wage shall be as follows:
(1) For Employers who have 21 or more Employees, or is a Domestic Worker:
(A) Beginning on July 1, 2020, $14.00 per hour.
(B) Beginning on July 1, 2021, $15.00 per hour.
(C) Beginning on July 1, 2022, and on every July 1 thereafter, the City's minimum hourly Wage from the previous year, increased in proportion to the increase, if any, in the CPI, provided, however, that if the CPI increases by more than 2.5 percent in any year, the City minimum Wage increase shall be capped at 2.5 percent, and that there shall be no City minimum Wage increase in any year when the unemployment rate in Chicago for the preceding year, as calculated by the Illinois Department of Employment Security, was equal to or greater than 8.5 percent. Any increase pursuant to this subsection shall be rounded up to the nearest multiple of $0.05. Any increase pursuant to subsection 6-105-020(b) shall remain in effect until any subsequent adjustment is made.
(2) For Employers who have more than 3, but fewer than 21 Employees:
(A) Beginning on July 1, 2020, $13.50 per hour.
(B) Beginning on July 1, 2021, $14.00 per hour.
(C) Beginning on July 1, 2022, $14.50 per hour.
(D) Beginning on July 1, 2023, $15.00 per hour.
(E) Beginning on July 1, 2024, the Wage will be the same as for subsection (b)(1)(C) Covered Employees.
(3) For Subsidized Temporary Youth Employment Programs, for Subsidized Transitional Employment Programs, for Covered Employees who are under 18 years of age, and those subject to Section 6 of the Minimum Wage Law:
(A) Beginning on July 1, 2020, $10.00 per hour.
(B) Beginning on July 1, 2021, $11.00 per hour.
(C) Beginning on July 1, 2022, $12.00 per hour.
(D) Beginning on July 1, 2023, $13.50 per hour.
(E) Beginning on July 1, 2024, $15.00 per hour.
(F) Beginning on July 1, 2025, the Wage shall rise by the lesser of $ 1.50 or the Wage set by subsection (b)(1)(C). This increase shall occur every year until the Wage is the same as the Wage set by subsection (b)(1)(C), after which the Wage will continue being the same as for subsection (b)(1)(C) Covered Employees.
(4) Sister Agencies shall be subject to the Wage requirements in subsection (b)(1) beginning on July 1, 2021.
(5) An Employer in possession of a special license issued by the Director of Labor described by Section 5 of the Minimum Wage Law, or in possession of a federal certificate that the United States Department of Labor issues to a work activities center or other sheltered workshop to allow the work activities center or sheltered workshop to pay an individual less than the wage otherwise required for that individual under the Fair Labor Standards Act, shall be subject to the Wage requirements in subsection (b)(1) as to those Covered Employees beginning on July 1, 2024.
(c) On or before June 1, 2022, and on or before every June 1 thereafter, the Commissioner shall make available to Employers a bulletin announcing the adjusted minimum hourly Wage for the upcoming year.
(Added Coun. J. 6-25-21, p. 32156, § 5; Amend Coun. J. 10-27-21, p. 39525, § 9)