Freezes minimum wage automatic escalators and annual inflation adjustments beginning in 2027; repeals the provision of law providing that the minimum wage shall be determined by increasing the then current year's minimum wage rate by the rate of change in the average of the three most recent consecutive twelve-month periods between the first of August and the thirty-first of July, each over their preceding twelve-month periods published by the United States department of labor non-seasonally adjusted consumer price index for the northeast region urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) or any successor index as calculated by the United States department of labor.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9309
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
December 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BOLOGNA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to freezing minimum wage
automatic escalators and annual inflation adjustments beginning in
2027; and to repeal certain provisions of such law related thereto
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1-a of section 652 of the labor law, as added
by section 2 of part S of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is amended to
read as follows:
1-a. Annual minimum wage from January 1, 2024 [to December 31, 2026]
AND THEREAFTER.
(a) New York city. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section,
every employer regardless of size shall pay to each of its employees for
each hour worked in the city of New York a wage of not less than:
$16.00 on and after January 1, 2024,
$16.50 on and after January 1, 2025,
$17.00 on and after January 1, 2026, or, if greater, such other wage
as may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C. section 206
or its successors or such other wage as may be established in accordance
with the provisions of this article.
(b) Remainder of downstate. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this
section, every employer shall pay to each of its employees for each hour
worked in the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester, a wage of
not less than:
$16.00 on and after January 1, 2024,
$16.50 on and after January 1, 2025,
$17.00 on and after January 1, 2026, or, if greater, such other wage
as may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C. section 206
or its successors or such other wage as may be established in accordance
with the provisions of this article.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14114-01-5
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