JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Three former state labor commissioners are promoting an increase in Alaska’s minimum wage.

Ed Flanagan, Tom Cashen and Jim Sampson are behind a proposed initiative to raise the minimum wage from the current $7.75 an hour to $8.75 an hour effective Jan. 1, 2015. It would go to $9.75 an hour a year later and be adjusted for inflation annually after that.