02-12-2008, 09:43 PM
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Carpe Visio
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Location: New York
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Like I said, we're already at $7.15 here in NY. Here's a bit more info about it and what they have planned for NYS.
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More than 1 million New Yorkers recently got a wage increase, thanks to the new minimum wage that was set on January 1, 2007. I always wonder how many employers are affected when statisticians cite such numbers about employees, but I have yet to be able to find the stats that will give me that information. And of course, that would be the information you guys would most likely like to hear too.
Nevertheless, the New York minimum wage is now $7.15 per hour, thanks to the General Industry Minimum Wage Act. The act had first increased the minimum wage to $6.75 per hour back in January 1, 2006.
Here?s another stat about New York workers and the minimum wage. Supposedly, there had been about 360,000 workers in the New York state making the minimum wage when the laws were passed way back when to change the New York minimum wage. About three quarters of these workers, at least when an estimate was done in 2004, were adults, and about the same number or proportion of them worked minimum wage at a full time job. About one out of ten workers in New York had also made less than $7 per hour according to these estimates as well.
There are also local minimum wage bills to contend with if you are an employer in the state of New York. In the county of Nassau, the government passed one of those living wage bills, which requires that anybody working on a city contract has to be paid at least $9.50 per hour in 2007. By 2008, the living wage standard will go up to $10.50 per hour, and by 2010, it is set to increase to $12.50 per hour. Again, in local situations, the higher wage wins out as the wage that employers have to follow as the minimum wage.
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