§ 652. Minimum wage. 1. Statutory. Every employer shall pay to each\nof its employees for each hour worked a wage of not less than:\n $4.25 on and after April 1, 1991,\n $5.15 on and after March 31, 2000,\n $6.00 on and after January 1, 2005,\n $6.75 on and after January 1, 2006,\n $7.15 on and after January 1, 2007,\n $8.00 on and after December 31, 2013,\n $8.75 on and after December 31, 2014,\n $9.00 on and after December 31, 2015, and until December 31, 2016, or,\nif greater, such other wage as may be established by federal law\npursuant to 29 U.S.C. section 206 or its successors\nor such other wage as may be established in accordance with the\nprovisions of this article.\n (a) New York City. (i) Large employers. Every employer of eleven or\nmore employees shall pay to each of its employees for each hour worked\nin the city of New York a wage of not less than:\n $11.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2016,\n $13.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2017,\n $15.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2018, or, if greater, such\nother wage as may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C.\nsection 206 or its successors or such other wage as may be established\nin accordance with the provisions of this article.\n (ii) Small employers. Every employer of ten or less employees shall\npay to each of its employees for each hour worked in the city of New\nYork a wage of not less than:\n $10.50 per hour on and after December 31, 2016,\n $12.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2017,\n $13.50 per hour on and after December 31, 2018,\n $15.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2019, or, if greater, such\nother wage as may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C.\nsection 206 or its successors or such other wage as may be established\nin accordance with the provisions of this article.\n (b) Remainder of downstate. Every employer shall pay to each of its\nemployees for each hour worked in the counties of Nassau, Suffolk and\nWestchester a wage not less than:\n $10.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2016,\n $11.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2017,\n $12.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2018,\n $13.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2019,\n $14.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2020,\n $15.00 per hour on and after December 31, 2021,\n or, if greater, such other wage as may be established by federal law\npursuant to 29 U.S.C. section 206 or its successors or such other wage\nas may be established in accordance with the provisions of this article.\n (c) Remainder of state. Every employer shall pay to each of its\nemployees for each hour worked outside of the city of New York and the\ncounties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester, a wage of not less than:\n $9.70 on and after December 31, 2016,\n $10.40 on and after December 31, 2017,\n $11.10 on and after December 31, 2018,\n $11.80 on and after December 31, 2019,\n $12.50 on and after December 31, 2020,\n and on each following December thirty-first up to and until December\n31, 2022, a wage published by the commissioner on or before October\nfirst, based on the then current minimum wage increased by a percentage\ndetermined by the director of the budget in consultation with the\ncommissioner, with the result rounded to the nearest five cents,\ntotaling no more than fifteen dollars, where the percentage increase\nshall be based on indices including, but not limited to, (i) the rate of\ninflation for the most recent twelve month period ending June of that\nyear based on the consumer price index for all urban consumers on a\nnational and seasonally unadjusted basis (CPI-U), or a successor index\nas calculated by the United States department of labor, (ii) the rate of\nstate personal income growth for the prior calendar year, or a successor\nindex, published by the bureau of economic analysis of the United States\ndepartment of commerce, or (iii) wage growth; or, if greater, such other\nwage as may be established by f
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