Wisconsin legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Wisconsin AB1158: An Act to repeal 104.001, 104.01 (5g) and 104.045 (1); to amend 104.045 (title); to repeal and recreate 104.035; to create 104.01 (1g), 104.01 (6m) and 227.01 (13) (Lw) of the statutes; Relating to: a state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Status: Failed, March 23, 2026
What the bill says
To amend 104.045 2(title); to repeal and recreate 104.035; to create 104.01 (1g), 104.01 (6m) 3and 227.01 (13) (Lw) of the statutes; relating to: a state minimum wage, 4allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule- 5making 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…
From the introduced text, March 13, 2026:
to amend 104.045 2(title); to repeal and recreate 104.035; to create 104.01 (1g), 104.01 (6m) 3and 227.01 (13) (Lw) of the statutes; relating to: a state minimum wage, 4allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule- 5making 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 …