Virginia order brief
Published local guides: Alexandria, Charlottesville, Chesapeake, Hampton, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Virginia Beach.
First decision
Virginia's minimum wage rises to $12.77 per hour effective January 1, 2026 under Va. Code § 40.1-28.10(B). employers must pay the greater of $12.77 or the federal minimum. and that statutory floor, not a local ordinance, is the pay baseline for event crews working in Alexandria.
Published references
Role references currently span $28.50–$55.50/hr. Each number below links to the city row that publishes it.
Worksite evidence
John Paul Jones Arena on UVA's Grounds seats 14,593 for basketball, per Virginia Athletics, and carries the touring concert calendar alongside the Cavaliers' schedule. It is the region's only arena-scale room, so its event nights set the local crew market's big-date rhythm.
The Chesapeake Jubilee runs May 14-17, 2026 at Chesapeake City Park: a four-day festival with carnival rides, live stages, food vendors, the Kiwanis Shrimp Feast, and a Saturday-night Zambelli fireworks finale, historically drawing 35,000-plus guests, so crews staff a Thursday load-in and a peak Saturday running late into the night.
Hampton Coliseum scales from 3,000 to 12,800 seats with 84,000 square feet of exhibit space, per the city's official destination-marketing site, so crew sizes swing hard between a half-house show and a full arena night; staff to the configuration, not the building.
