{"id":57205,"date":"2025-12-01T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57205\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:40:07","slug":"ny-minimum-wage-to-increase-soon-see-how-much-it-will-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57205\/","title":{"rendered":"NY minimum wage to increase soon: See how much it will rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

The minimum wage in the state of New York will increase by 50 cents per hour in January.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s minimum hourly wage for workers will increase on Jan. 1, 2026 to $17 in New York City, Westchester County and on Long Island. In the rest of the state, including the Syracuse area and Upstate New York, it will increase to $16 an hour.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an increase of about 3% in the Downstate areas and 3.2% in the rest of the state.<\/p>\n

The increases mean an extra $20 a week for a minimum wage earner working a full-time job at 40 hours per week. In Upstate New York, that would translate into pay of $640 a week or about $33,000 a year.<\/p>\n

Starting in 2027, the minimum wage will increase by a three-year moving average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the Northeast region, according to the state Labor Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A minimum wage increase in 2025<\/a>, the upcoming hike in 2026 and the planned indexing of the wage to inflation are the result of policy changes passed previously as part of the state budget process.<\/p>\n

The legislation included provisions that allow the wage to be frozen if the state\u2019s economy weakens, so the raises aren\u2019t guaranteed.<\/p>\n

The minimum wage in New York has increased substantially in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, it was $7.25 an hour. Once the latest set of increases are in place, the wage will have increased over 120% from that level in Upstate New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The minimum wage in the state of New York will increase by 50 cents per hour in January.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5645,5646,5647,5648,5649,795,5650,5651,5652,4953,5653,5654,5655,5656,2712,237,9,11,10,49,51,50,5657,5658,5659,5660,618,5661],"class_list":["post-57205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-american","tag-background","tag-banknote","tag-bill","tag-bills","tag-cash","tag-close","tag-dollar","tag-dollars","tag-financial","tag-franklin","tag-green","tag-hundred","tag-isolated","tag-macro","tag-money","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-note","tag-one","tag-texture","tag-up","tag-us","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57205","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=57205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}