Cherokee Native American Tribe Announces Minimum Wage Increase For Public Workers, To $9.50 An Hour

Workers in Oklahoma are getting their minimum wage increased to $9.50 per hour. Well, OK, not really. Only the roughly 400 employees of the Native American Cherokee Nation, headquartered in the town of Tahlequah, 74 miles southwest of Tulsa, are getting their minimum wage raised, to $9.50 per hour from the current $9.