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Starting Jan. 1, New Jersey’s minimum wage will rise by $1 and reach its highest level ever, $15.13 an hour, thanks to a law passed by Democratic lawmakers and signed by Gov. Phil Murphy in 2019.
The hourly minimum currently stands at $14.13 an hour. The latest increase will boost it to almost double the $8.60 an hour workers were getting when Murphy signed the law.
The increase will affect about 350,000 of the state's roughly 1.9 million hourly workers, the state Labor Department said in a statement Thursday. But not everyone will get a bump. Several classes of workers are exempt, at least temporarily.
Here's what New Jerseyans need to know about the new minimum wage and the debate about pushing it even higher in coming years.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, the state hourly rate is still the same as the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. New York workers, however, have a higher base: Come 2024, the minimum wage will be $16 an hour in New York City, Westchester County and Long Island and $15 for the rest of the Empire State.
The state of Washington and Washington, D.C., will have the highest minimum wages with an hourly rate of $16.28 and $17, respectively.
“There is no doubt that inflation has had an impact on every New Jerseyan," Murphy said in the Thursday statement. "Now that we are close to surpassing the $15 per hour milestone, it’s important that we continue to ensure that everyone...
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