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Ohio's hourly minimum wage will increase 5 cents at the start of 2017 to $8.15, the Ohio Department of Commerce said Thursday. For tipped employees, the wage will increase 3 cents to $4.08 per hour. Ohio's minimum wage increases annually in line with the Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W), as a result of a constitutional amendment state voters approved in 2006. The CPI-W increased 0.7 percent from Sept. 1, 2015 to Aug. 31 of this year, triggering the bump in the minimum wage. State minimum wage requirements apply to employees of businesses with annual gross receipts above a certain threshold. For 2016, that threshold is $297,000; next year, it will rise to $299,000. Employees at businesses below that threshold, as well as employees who are 14 or 15 years old, can be paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25. The federal wage does not increase automatically. A minimum wage poster with 2017 rates for display at businesses is available at http://www.com.ohio.gov/documents/dico_2017MinimumWageposter.pdf.