This year, 19 states and DC have raised their minimum wage, benefiting 17 million of the poorest-paid American workers. The federal minimum wage was set at $7.25 an hour in 2009 and has remained unchanged, but 29 states and DC have since set wage floors that surpass the national baseline, marching ever closer to the magic figure of $15 an hour, although five states have still not adopted a bare minimum. With this in mind, we count down from the highest to the lowest minimum wage in the US.