Bill would raise minimum wage to $25 per hour over time.
S. 4981 — Living Wage For All Act · Filed by Christopher Murphy (D-CT) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 14, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill raises the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour. Large employers reach this wage in 5 years. Smaller employers get 12 years to reach it. After that, the minimum wage rises each year. It is based on the national median wage. The bill ends lower wages for tipped workers and workers with disabilities.
Who it affects
Low-wage workers would earn more money. Employers would pay higher labor costs on a staggered timeline. Workers with disabilities and tipped workers would earn the same wage as others.
One thing to notice
Tipped workers and workers with disabilities no longer have a separate lower wage. Large and small employers have different timelines to reach $25 per hour.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 4 Democrats.
- Jul 14, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 14, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- federal minimum wage — The lowest hourly pay that employers must give workers by U.S. law.
- median wage — The middle wage when all workers' pay is lined up from lowest to highest.
- tipped workers — People who earn tips as part of their pay, like restaurant servers.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 19, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-17.
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