The increase will bring the minimum wage to $16.50 an hour in New York City, Westchester County, and on Long Island. In the rest of the state, including Upstate New York, the new minimum wage will be $15.50 an hour.
The coming increases and planned indexing of the wage to inflation are the result of policy changes passed previously as part of the state budget process.
The legislation included provisions that allow the wage to be frozen if the state's economy weakens, so the raises aren't guaranteed.
Once the latest set of increases are in place, the wage will have increased over 120% from that level in Upstate New York, where a decade ago it was $7.25 an hour.
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