New Jersey’s new mandatory minimum wage requirement will be effective January 1, 2023.

For most employers, the 2023 minimum wage for compensating employees will be $14.13 per hour (up from $13 per hour in 2022). For tipped employees, the minimum cash wage the employer will be able to pay is $5.27 per hour (up from $5.13 per hour in 2022), provided that the cash wage paid by the employer plus tips earned by the employee equals the $14.13 per hour minimum wage.

There are other exceptions to the $14.13 per hour general minimum wage requirement.  For example, seasonal and small employers (fewer than six employees) will have their pay increased from $11.90 to $12.93 an hour. Agricultural workers will have their pay increased from $11.05 to $12.01, and direct care staff at long-term care facilities will receive a raise in pay by $1.13 to $17.13 per hour.

The minimum wage increase which goes into effect on January 1, 2023, is one step in a series of incremental minimum wage increases scheduled to take place annually until January 1, 2024 when the minimum wage for most workers will increase to $15 an hour.  These minimum wage increases are required under an amendment to New Jersey’s Wage and Hour Law signed into law by Governor Murphy in 2019.  Saiber LLC discussed the amendment in a February 7, 2019 article available here. 

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