WAYNE, NJ – New Jersey’s minimum wage is set to increase again in 2023, another incremental step on its way to $15.00/hour by 2024. However, this year’s increase will be higher than originally planned.

Wayne resident, Gordon Marzano of Marzano Human Resources Consulting recently wrote an article about this and allowed TAPinto to publish an excerpt:

“A state law that took effect in 2019 was designed to gradually increase the minimum wage from what was then $8.60 an hour to $15 an hour by 2024.” Minimum wage workers were expected to receive $14 an hour in 2023. But a provision in the law that ties the raise to the Consumer Price Index kicked in, giving them $14.13 an hour instead.”

“The Labor Department announced other wage changes beginning in 2023. Among them:

• Seasonal and small employers, which were given until 2026 to pay their workers $15 per hour, will have a minimum wage of $12.93 an hour, up from $11.90.
• Agricultural employers, given until 2027 to reach the $15-an-hour minimum wage, will pay $12.01 an hour, up from $11.05.
• Long-term care facility direct care staff will see their minimum wage rise by $1.13, to $17.13.”

TAPinto spoke with a few Wayne business owners who rely on minimum wage workers to gauge their reaction to this news.

Joe Monello of Monello Landscape Industries on Hamburg Turnpike in Wayne said that these increases don’t really affect his business “the way some would think.”

“We have usually been paying more than minimum wage anyway,” said Monello....

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