{"id":72791,"date":"2025-12-29T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:00:07","slug":"new-jersey-increasing-statewide-minimum-wage-jan-1-no-increase-in-pennsylvania-or-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72791\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey increasing statewide minimum wage Jan. 1, no increase in Pennsylvania or Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2026-minimum-wage-increases\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nearly two dozen states<\/a> set to increase its minimum wage in 2026, and the only state in the Delaware Valley that will see a hike.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 1, 2026, the Garden State&#8217;s minimum wage will increase to $15.92 per hour \u2013 up $0.43 \u2013 for most employees.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/labor\/lwdhome\/press\/2025\/20251001_Minimum_Wage.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Department of Labor and Workforce Development<\/a>, minimum wage for seasonal employees and small businesses will continue to gradually increase until 2028. In 2026, minimum hourly wage for those employees will increase to $15.23 from $14.53.<\/p>\n<p>Agricultural workers in New Jersey will also see a minimum hourly wage increase, though these changes are guided by a separate wage timetable, according to the state. The minimum wage for hourly or piece-rate wage farm employees will jump to $14.20 from $13.40 in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of 2025, New Jersey saw a minimum wage increase of $0.36 for most workers, up to $15.49.<\/p>\n<p>No minimum wage increase in Pennsylvania, Delaware<\/p>\n<p>Delaware&#8217;s minimum wage will remain at $15 per hour in 2026, though the state did see an increase at the start of this year.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 1, 2025, the minimum wage for most employees went up by $1.75 from $13.25.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s minimum wage will remain at the federal level of $7.25 per hour for another year. The federal minimum wage hasn&#8217;t changed since 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/josh-hawley-raise-federal-minimum-wage\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">despite recent attempts to increase<\/a> it to $15.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania is one of 13 states whose minimum wage is the same as the federal level, though lawmakers in Harrisburg have tried to move the needle on statewide minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/josh-shapiro-budget-minimum-wage-in-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2024 budget address<\/a>, Gov. Josh Shapiro echoed a campaign promise to raise the Commonwealth&#8217;s minimum wage to $15 per\u00a0hour. This year though, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/pennsylvania-50-billion-budget-agreement-shapiro-republicans-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">state budge<\/a>t did not include any minimum wage increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jersey is one of nearly two dozen states set to increase its minimum wage in 2026, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[916,37933,83,915,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-72791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-delaware","9":"tag-minimum-wage","10":"tag-money","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","14":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}