Minimum Wage 2025 New York State. These rates are in effect from january 1, 2025 through december 31, 2025. 1, 2025, the minimum hourly wage will increase from $15.00 to $16.00 in new york city and nassau, suffolk, and westchester counties, and from.

Those increases will bring the minimum wage to $17 in the new york city area and $16 an hour in upstate new york, up about 12.7% from the current level in the. New york is raising its minimum wage in january by $1 to $16 an hour for workers in new york city and the neighboring suburbs of westchester county and long.