Gov. Tom Wolf will sign an executive order Monday afternoon that ensures all employees under the governor's jurisdiction and employees of organizations that receive state contracts will be paid no less than $10.15 an hour.- Video: Watch the News 8 report- Download the WGAL appThe new minimum wage is an increase of nearly $3 an hour. The previous minimum wage of $7.25 had been in effect for seven years.As Wolf proposed in his budget, he will also call on the legislature to work with him to increase the minimum wage statewide.The inflation-adjusted hourly earnings of the bottom fifth of Pennsylvania workers are lower today than they were in 1979. The current minimum wage of $7.25 per hour has 18 percent less purchasing power than the minimum wage had in 1979.A full-time, year-round worker earning the current minimum wage earns less than the federal poverty threshold for a family of two.