"Since 2014, 12 states have passed minimum wage increases through ballot measures," Martinez Hickey told CNBC.
Meanwhile, voters in Arizona will decide on a ballot measure that would lower the minimum wage for tipped workers.
Here's what's at stake for workers who make the minimum wage, and the employers who pay them, in next month's election.
1 would raise the minimum wage to $13 in 2025, and to $14 in 2026.
Question 5 in Massachusetts would slowly phase out its tipped minimum wage of $6.75 per hour, until it eventually matches the state's standard minimum wage by 2029.
Persons:
Lucy Nicholson, Sebastian Martinez Hickey, Martinez Hickey, Here's, erick Pasquier, Joelle, Hall, Kati Capozzi, Capozzi, Richard von Glahn
Organizations:
California Labor, Reuters, Economic, Institute, CNBC, Alaska AFL, Alaska Chamber, Healthy Families, San Francisco, LAO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Locations:
Alaska , Missouri, California, Arizona, Alaska, United States, Bering Sea, Missouri, North America, U.S, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Massachusetts, Massachusetts