A minimum wage increase took effect at the start of the year in 19 states, bolstering the incomes of millions of workers from coast to coast. Wages will rise by different amounts in different states — and sometimes by different amounts within those states.

In New York, the minimum wage rose on Jan. 1 to $11 for large businesses and $10.50 for small businesses in New York City, $10 in downstate suburbs and $9.70 elsewhere in the state.

The minimum wage also rose in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, South Dakota, Vermont and Washington. Oregon, Maryland and Washington, D.C., will see minimum wage increases later in 2017.

The federal government has not raised the federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, in more than seven years.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders credited the spate of state actions on wages to the nationwide coalition advocating a $15-per-hour minimum wage and the right to unionize. “The #Fightfor15 started only four years ago,” Sanders wrote on Twitter. “But huge progress has already been made because people everywhere see the justice of that idea.”

ABC News, Jan. 1