Amends existing law to increase Idaho”s minimum wage, including for tipped employees and youth workers.

The legislation increases the minimum wage from the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour to $8.75 per hour on July 1, 2017, and to $10.50 on July 1, 2018, and $12.00 per hour on July 1, 2019. Wages for tipped employees will increase from $3.35 per hour to $4.35 per hour for employment commencing July 1, 2017, $5.85 per hour for employment commencing on July 1, 2018, and $7.35 per hour for employment commencing July 1, 2019. Beginning September 30, 2020, and on each succeeding September 30, the director of the department of commerce shall calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate in direct proportion to an increase or decrease in the United States department of labor's consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CIP-W) or a successor index, for the period of July 1 of the previous calendar year to June 30 of the current calendar year.