Lexington Herald-Leader: on Jobs

Matt Bevin: Minimum wage stifles job creation; reduce to $7.25

An estimated 800 state workers who already have received pay raises as a result of Beshear's order may keep them, but all new state hires will start at the previously established pay scale, Bevin said. The current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.

"The minimum wage stifles job creation and disproportionately impacts lower skilled workers seeking entry-level jobs," Bevin wrote in his executive order. "Wage rates ideally would be established by the demands of the labor market instead of being set by the government."

Steve Beshear: Raise state worker minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10

Beshear's June 8 executive order raised the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for hundreds of the lowest-paid workers in state government's executive branch and the employees of vendors who signed contracts with the executive branch.

An estimated 800 state workers who already have received pay raises as a result of Beshear's order may keep them, but all new state hires will start at the previously established pay scale, Bevin said. The current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.