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NEW JERSEY - New Jersey’s statewide minimum wage will be raised by $0.36 to $15.49 per hour for most employees on Jan. 1, 2025.. JUMP TO: NEW YORK l CONNECTICUT The increase was part of a ...
It's $16.50 in New York City, Long Island and Westchester.Rhode Island is taking its minimum up a buck to $15.00, the result of legislation.South Dakota's minimum is set to hit $11.50 in 2025, up ...
The 36-cent-an-hour increase comes after a years-long ramp-up. When Gov. Phil Murphy took office in 2018, the state minimum wage was $8.60. NJ minimum wage rising to $15.49 an hour in 2025.
A majority (56%) believe that raising the minimum wage will help the economy, 16% believe it won't make a difference, and only 21% felt it would hurt the economy. [182] Regardless of the ruling, the idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
The minimum wage is going up in a record 23 states and 65 cities and counties in 2025. More areas are adopting $15 an hour - or higher - as pay floor Minimum wage set to rise in 23 states next ...
In 2013, 50% of minimum wage workers were between the ages of 15 and 19; in 1997, it was 36%. 50.2% of workers in this age group were paid minimum wage in 2013, an increase from 31.5% in 1997. Statistics Canada notes that "youth, women and persons with a low level of education were the groups most likely to be paid at minimum wage." [2]
For anyone working a minimum wage job in this new year, they will be paid more in 22 states and in at least 40 cities and counties across the country than they were in 2023. ... (See the full list ...