Democrat & Chronicle: NY minimum wage rising to $15 upstate, $16 in NYC in 2024. It'll keep rising
By Chris McKenna
Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, Jan 1, 2024. Also The Press & Sun Bulletin (Binghamton).
About 1 million New Yorkers who stock store shelves and hold other low-wage jobs will get a pay boost in 2024.
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 Island. In the rest of the state, the hourly minimum is rising to $15 from $14.20, an 80-cent hike — and the realization of a $15 statewide...