Minimum Wage Power Rankings — Methodology

Field: 50 states + D.C.. Accountable official: Governor. Cadence: annual. Data retrieved 2026-06-23.

Weights are public so the ranking cannot be called rigged. Each dimension is normalized 0–100 across all ranked states & D.C. (min–max; inverted where lower is better), multiplied by its weight, and summed to the 0–100 composite. A metric that is unavailable for an entity is never estimated — the remaining weights are rescaled and the composite flagged “partial.”

Provenance

Primary source: National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) · https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wages.