New Yorkers working minimum wage jobs to see pay rise to $13 an hour in new year

Thanks to legislation passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Cuomo in 2016, the minimum wage for most city workers will increase from $11 an hour to $13 an hour. For workers in businesses with 10 or fewer employees, the minimum hourly wage will rise from $10.50 to $12.

The increases are part of a series of incremental raises called for under the legislation that will bring the minimum wage to $15 an hour across the state within the next several years. Minimum-wage workers in the suburbs and upstate will also see pay increases starting on Sunday.

“I am ecstatic,” said Toni Thompson, 64, a fast-food worker from Brooklyn. “This raise is very much needed.”

Under the wage legislation, city workers at large firms will be the first to reach a $15 minimum hourly wage, starting on Dec. 31, 2018. A year later, city workers at businesses with 10 or fewer workers will reach that goal.

Long Island and Westchester workers will get a $15 minimum wage by Dec. 31, 2021, while those in the rest of the state must await a timetable still to be determined by the state Budget Division.



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