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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 1123
March 19, 2026 - Introduced by Senators
Roys
,
Drake
,
Larson
,
Spreitzer
and
Carpenter
, cosponsored by Representatives
Cruz
,
Clancy
,
Tenorio
,
Anderson
,
Arney
,
Bare
,
Brown
,
DeSanto
,
DeSmidt
,
Fitzgerald
,
Goodwin
,
Haywood
,
Hong
,
Hysell
,
Joers
,
Johnson
,
Kirsch
,
Madison
,
Mayadev
,
McCarville
,
McGuire
,
Miresse
,
Moore Omokunde
,
Palmeri
,
Phelps
,
Prado
,
Rivera-Wagner
,
Roe
,
Sheehan
,
Sinicki
,
Spaude
,
Stubbs
,
Subeck
,
Taylor
,
Udell
,
Vining
,
Snodgrass
and
Stroud
. Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development.
SB1123,1,5
1
An Act
to repeal
104.001, 104.01 (5g) and 104.045 (1);
to amend
104.045
2
(title);
to repeal and recreate
104.035;
to create
104.01 (1g), 104.01 (6m)
3
and 227.01 (13) (Lw) of the statutes;
relating to:
a state minimum wage,
4
allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-
5
making authority.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Currently, the state minimum wage law requires that employers pay the applicable minimum wage set in statute to their employees. Under that law, the current minimum wage for non-tipped employees is $7.25 per hour and for tipped employees is $2.33 per hour. This bill raises the minimum wage for non-tipped employees and for tipped employees. However, the bill establishes a longer timeline for small employers to be required to pay the same minimum wage as large employers. Under the bill, a “small employer” is defined as one that employs 50 or fewer employees.
The bill raises the minimum wage to $15 per hour for non-tipped employees of large employers on the effective date of the bill and by $1.25 per hour on each successive January 1 until 2030, when it is set at a standard minimum wage of $20 per hour. The bill raises the minimum wage to $7.50 per hour for tipped employees of large employers on the effective date of the bill and by 50 cents per hour on each successive January 1 until 2031, when it is set at a minimum of $10 per hour. Thereafter the tipped minimum wage generally is set at one-half the standard minimum wage.
The bill raises the minimum wage to $15 per hour for non-tipped employees of small employers on the effective date of the bill and by 75 cents per hour on each successive January 1 until 2034, when it is set at the standard minimum wage then in effect. The bill also raises the minimum wage to $6.50 per hour for tipped employees of small employers on the effective date of the bill and by 50 cents per hour on each successive January 1 until 2034, when it is set at one-half the standard minimum wage then in effect.
The table below illustrates the progression of the minimum wage between the current minimum wage and January 1, 2034.
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Beginning on January 1, 2031, and annually thereafter, the bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to annually revise the minimum wage for most employees established under the bill by determining the percentage difference between the consumer price index for the preceding year and the consumer price index for the year before the preceding year, adjusting the minimum wage then in effect by that percentage difference, and rounding that result to the nearest multiple of five cents. If the consumer price index for the preceding year has not increased over the consumer price index for the year before the preceding year, DWD will not revise the minimum wage for most employees. DWD must publish the revised minimum wage in the Wisconsin Administrative Register and on DWD’s website. The bill also provides that if the minimum wage generally for employees, as revised, is not at least $20 per hour, DWD must revise it to $20 per hour beginning on January 1, 2031.
The bill also repeals 1) a provision that requires DWD to promulgate rules governing the counting of tips or similar gratuities toward payment of the minimum wage; 2) provisions setting specific meal and lodging allowances; and 3) provisions establishing minimum wages for minor employees, opportunity employees, agricultural employees, and others and instead requires DWD to establish the minimum wage for those employees by rule.
Finally, current law prohibits a city, village, town, or county from enacting and administering an ordinance establishing a minimum wage. The bill eliminates that prohibition.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB1123,1
1
Section
1
.
104.001 of the statutes is repealed.
SB1123,2
2
Section
2
.
104.01 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:
SB1123,2,6
3
104.01
(1g)
“Consumer price index” means the average of the consumer price
4
index over each 12-month period for all urban consumers, U.S. city average, all
5
items, not seasonally adjusted, as determined by the bureau of labor statistics of the
6
U.S. department of labor.
SB1123,3
7
Section
3
.
104.01 (6m) of the statutes is created to read:
SB1123,2,9
8
104.01
(6m)
“Small employer” means an employer that employs 50 or fewer
9
employees.
SB1123,4
10
Section
4
.
104.01 (5g) of the statutes is repealed.
SB1123,5
11
Section
5
.
104.035 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB1123,3,2
1
104.035
Minimum wage; established.
(1)
Employees generally.
Except
2
as provided in subs. (2) to (4), the minimum wage is as follows:
SB1123,3,4
3
(a) For wages earned after the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts
4
date], but before January 1, 2027, $15 per hour.
SB1123,3,6
5
(b) Except as provided in par. (c), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
6
2027, and ending on December 31, 2027, $16.25 per hour.
SB1123,3,8
7
(c) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
8
January 1, 2027, and ending on December 31, 2027, $15.75 per hour.
SB1123,3,10
9
(d) Except as provided in par. (e), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
10
2028, and ending on December 31, 2028, $17.50 per hour.
SB1123,3,12
11
(e) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
12
January 1, 2028, and ending on December 31, 2028, $16.50 per hour.
SB1123,3,14
13
(f) Except as provided in par. (g), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
14
2029, and ending on December 31, 2029, $18.75 per hour.
SB1123,3,16
15
(g) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
16
January 1, 2029, and ending on December 31, 2029, $17.25 per hour.
SB1123,3,18
17
(h) Except as provided in par. (i), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
18
2030, and ending on December 31, 2030, $20 per hour.
SB1123,3,20
19
(i) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
20
January 1, 2030, and ending on December 31, 2030, $18 per hour.
SB1123,3,22
21
(j) Except as provided in pars. (k) to (n), for wages earned beginning on
22
January 1, 2031, the amount determined by the department under sub. (5).
SB1123,4,2
1
(k) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
2
January 1, 2031, and ending on December 31, 2031, $18.75 per hour.
SB1123,4,4
3
(L) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
4
January 1, 2032, and ending on December 31, 2032, $19.50 per hour.
SB1123,4,6
5
(m) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
6
January 1, 2033, and ending on December 31, 2033, $20 per hour.
SB1123,4,8
7
(n) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
8
January 1, 2034, the amount determined under par. (j).
SB1123,4,10
9
(2)
Tipped employees.
Except as provided in subs. (3) and (4), the minimum
10
wage for tipped employees is as follows:
SB1123,4,12
11
(a) Except as provided in par. (b), for wages earned after the effective date of
12
this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], but before January 1, 2027, $7.50 per hour.
SB1123,4,15
13
(b) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer after the effective
14
date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], but before January 1, 2027, $6.50 per
15
hour.
SB1123,4,17
16
(c) Except as provided in par. (d), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
17
2027, and ending on December 31, 2027, $8 per hour.
SB1123,4,19
18
(d) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
19
January 1, 2027, and ending on December 31, 2027, $7 per hour.
SB1123,4,21
20
(e) Except as provided in par. (f), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
21
2028, and ending on December 31, 2028, $8.50 per hour.
SB1123,4,23
22
(f) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
23
January 1, 2028, and ending on December 31, 2028, $7.50 per hour.
SB1123,5,2
1
(g) Except as provided in par. (h), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
2
2029, and ending on December 31, 2029, $9 per hour.
SB1123,5,4
3
(h) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
4
January 1, 2029, and ending on December 31, 2029, $8 per hour.
SB1123,5,6
5
(i) Except as provided in par. (j), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
6
2030, and ending on December 31, 2030, $9.50 per hour.
SB1123,5,8
7
(j) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
8
January 1, 2030, and ending on December 31, 2030, $8.50 per hour.
SB1123,5,10
9
(k) Except as provided in par. (L), for wages earned beginning on January 1,
10
2031, and ending on December 31, 2031, $10 per hour.
SB1123,5,12
11
(L) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
12
January 1, 2031, and ending on December 31, 2031, $9 per hour.
SB1123,5,15
13
(m) Except as provided in pars. (n) to (p), for wages earned beginning on
14
January 1, 2032, one-half the amount determined by the department under sub. (1)
15
(j).
SB1123,5,17
16
(n) For wages earned by an employee of a small employer beginning on
17
January 1, 2032, and ending on December 31, 2032, $9.50 per hour.
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