What is new jersey's minimum wage?

New Jersey Minimum Wage to Increase in 2017 Sunday, October 9, 2016 New Jersey’s minimum wage will increase from $8.38 per hour to $8.44 per hour effective January 1, 2017, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) has announced. read more

The New Jersey Minimum Wage is the lowest hourly wage that an employee working in New Jersey can legally be paid. Both New Jersey and the federal government have set a legal minimum wage - New Jersey's is $8.44 per hour, while the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. read more

The New Jersey minimum wage was last changed in 2008, when it was raised $1.45 from $7.15 to $8.60. New Jersey's minimum wage rate is linked to a Consumer Price Index, which is intended to raise the rate along with inflation. The current minimum wage rate is re-evaluated yearly based on these values. read more

The wage increase, from $8.44 an hour to $8.60 an hour, will be the fourth to occur in the past five years, thanks to changes that New Jersey voters made to the state constitution in 2013, which included immediately hiking the minimum wage by $1, and then tying future adjustments to the federal rate of inflation. read more