{"id":159535,"date":"2026-03-10T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159535\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:27:07","slug":"nycs-minimum-wage-could-hit-30-under-new-proposed-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159535\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s minimum wage could hit $30 under new proposed law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York City Council is set to propose a record-breaking $30-per-hour minimum wage bill on Tuesday, which would nearly double the Big Apple\u2019s current baseline pay of $17<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-30-minimum-wage-proposal-headed-to-city-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">, Gothamist first reported. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/09\/us-news\/nyc-ny-politics-live-updates-march-9-10-11-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bill is sponsored by lefty Councilwoman Sandy Nurse (D-37) and echoes one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s campaign promises to lift the Big Apple\u2019s minimum pay to $30 by the year 2030.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38734519\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/general-view-worker-unloading-steel-106810126.jpg\" alt=\"Workers unload steel beams at the JPMorgan Chase headquarters construction site.\" class=\"wp-image-38734519\"  \/>The New York City Council is set to propose a record-breaking $30-per-hour minimum wage bill on Tuesday, which would nearly double the Big Apple\u2019s current baseline pay of $17. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>Despite the similarities, Mamdani declined to explicitly support the legislation in a statement provided to The Post. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayor Mamdani believes that all New Yorkers need to make a living wage\u201d to address the affordability crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the administration reviews this specific legislation, the mayor remains committed to tackling the cost-of-living crisis using every tool at the city\u2019s disposal,\u201d said a spokesperson for the mayor, Dora Pekec.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The proposed pay increases would happen gradually and call for employers with upward of 500 employees to lift worker salaries to $20 an hour by 2027 and $30 an hour by 2030. The minimum pay rate in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/29\/business\/hourly-minimum-wage-set-to-hit-17-in-nyc-16-in-rest-of-state-on-jan-1-as-mandatory-pay-is-rising-for-millions-across-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City rose to $17 an hour this year<\/a> after hitting $15 an hour in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The change would affect upward of 1 million city workers who currently make minimum wage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Council is set to propose a record-breaking $30-per-hour minimum wage bill on Tuesday, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,12545,9,24,56,63,65,64,58,18860,82],"class_list":["post-159535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-minimum-wage","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news","tag-wages","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}