Rauner also offered his own proposal to boost the state's minimum wage from $8.25 to $10 by bumping it up a quarter annually for seven straight years. That pace is slower and ends at a lower level than two other measures: the Chicago ordinance approved last year that will raise the city minimum to $13 by mid-2019 and a bill that advanced in the Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday to raise the minimum wage to $11 over four years.