Florida’s minimum wage will rise by a nickel an hour to $8.10 on January 1^st. That’s a two-dollar increase for a 40-hour work week, the fifth-smallest hourly increase since Florida established a state minimum wage in 2005. Under a constitutional amendment passed by Florida voters in 2004, the Department of Economic Opportunity calculates the state minimum-wage rate each year based on increases in a federal consumer price index and the index rose by less than 1 percent in the past year. the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.