If approved, SQ 832 would mandate permanent, uncapped minimum wage increases in Oklahoma. The current minimum wage is $7.25. SQ 832 would increase the minimum wage to $12.00 per hour in 2027, $13.50 in 2028, and $15.00 in 2029. By 2030, the minimum wage will automatically increase every year with no cap. These increases are driven by cost-of-living rates in New York and California, not Oklahoma.
VOTE NO ON SQ 832
VOTE NO ON SQ 832
SQ 832 is a permanent, uncapped mandate that will crush small businesses and family farms with price hikes and lost jobs.
What Does SQ 832 Really Do?
Why is voting NO on SQ 832 so important?
Forever Price Hikes. Family farms, corner stores, and working Oklahomans are already facing an affordability crisis, paying more for groceries, medicine, utilities, and childcare. SQ 832 would drive these costs even higher.
Long-Term Pain. A recent study found that Oklahoma would lose up to 16,000 jobs and lead to a loss of $700 million in economic output by 2035.
Job Losses. SQ 832 will result in fewer jobs for entry-level workers, more layoffs, reduced hours, slashed benefits, and automation in many businesses. A recent study estimates Oklahoma’s small businesses would bear 60 percent of job losses. Small businesses can’t afford to take a chance on a borderline candidate when the price is so high.
How can I support Main Street Oklahomans?
Vote no on SQ 832. This is not a simple wage increase – it’s a permanent, automatic, uncapped mandate that drives up prices, eliminates jobs, harms small businesses and family farms, and puts Oklahoma at a disadvantage.
Oklahomans’ wages should be determined between employees and their employers, not mandated by unelected federal bureaucrats and data gathered from California and New York.
SQ 832 will also crush Oklahoma’s working families, who are already struggling to pay more for gas and groceries, small businesses, whose costs will increase, and family farms, which already operate on very thin margins
Make your plan to vote NO on SQ 832.
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