New Jersey's minimum wage will remain at $8.38 per hour for
2016, the state government recently announced.
As we reported on
January 2, 2015, New Jersey's constitution requires that
the state minimum wage increase annually (and proportionally) if
there is an increase of the consumer price index for all urban wage
earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) for the prior year. The New
Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of
Economic and Demographic Research (DOL) recently announced that
there was no such increase in the past year (August 2014 to August
2015), meaning the minimum wage will remain as is.
The DOL will continue to publish a notice about the CPI-W in the
New Jersey Register and on the DOL's
website prior to September 30th each year, which will be the
determining factor in whether the minimum wage will rise in the
future.
