Florida’s minimum wage will increase to $14 an hour on Sept. 30, as the state continues carrying out a constitutional amendment that eventually will lead to a $15 minimum wage.

Voters in 2020 approved the constitutional amendment, which was spearheaded by prominent Orlando lawyer John Morgan.

The minimum wage went to $10 an hour on Sept. 30, 2021 and has been increasing by $1 every Sept. 30 since.

"This is a very good time for those increases, because the time has also coincided with a period where inflation may have become some issue, and now these increases, in one way or another, have helped moderate the impact," FIU's Dr. Robinson Reyes Peña told NBC6.

It is required to increase by this amount until it hits $15 an hour in 2026. After that, it will be adjusted annually based on in

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