Minimum hourly wages for many nonexempt employees and minimum salaries for exempt employees in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are scheduled to increase in 2023. Employers should begin to make plans to ensure that their hourly wages for nonexempt employees, their minimum salaries for exempt employees and their wage hour policies and practices comply with these requirements.

On January 1, 2023, the minimum hourly rate in New York City, Nassau County, Suffolk County and Westchester County for nonexempt employees is $15 an hour. The minimum hourly rate for nonexempt employees located in other New York regions increases from $13.20 to $14.20 an hour on January 1, 2023 and is subject to annual increases each year thereafter based on economic indices until it reaches $15 an hour for employees in those geographic areas. These effective minimum hourly rates apply to nonexempt employees regardless of whether these workers are paid an hourly wage or a weekly salary.

The minimum salary for exempt employees in New York City, Long Island and Westchester is $58,500 per year on January 1, 2023. The minimum salary for employees who are exempt from overtime pay requirements increases from $990 per week to $1,064.25 per week for other regions in New York State. Employees exempt from overtime pay requirements based on the professional exemption, such as doctors, lawyers and teachers, may not be subject to the same minimum salary requirements as other exempt employees.

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