evidence: Workers ages 17 and younger may be paid 85% of the state minimum wage, whichever is greater, for the first 90 days of their employment. The governor may recommend suspending increases in the minimum wage if the state experiences two consecutive quarters of negative growth in the state’s real domestic gross product. [...] Increase scheduled for 2017 did not go into effect due to state-level preemption* [...] Annual increases based on the previous year’s percentage change in the CPI-W for the West census region.