{"id":84650,"date":"2025-12-30T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84650\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:22:08","slug":"new-york-minimum-wage-to-increase-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84650\/","title":{"rendered":"New York minimum wage to increase in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York\u2019s minimum wage is set to increase effective Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

Starting on that date, the minimum wage statewide will increase by 50 cents an hour.<\/p>\n

In New York City, Westchester County and on Long Island, it will rise to $17 an hour. 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 increases are in place, the wage will have increased over 120% from that level in Upstate New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s minimum wage is set to increase effective Jan. 1. Starting on that date, the minimum wage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7987,5653,9,24,55,54,56,7988],"class_list":{"0":"post-84650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-franklin","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84650","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=84650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}