Minimum wage increases will take effect on New Year’s Day in 48 cities and counties in the U.S. as jurisdictions across the country raise pay floors for workers who dealt with rising post-pandemic prices.

While 23 states are raising their minimum wage rates in 2025, Oklahoma still has another year and a half to decide whether to join the movement.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that he hopes to work with President-elect Trump to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour, the federal standard last raised in 2009. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,

On Jan. 1, 2025, New York’s minimum wage will increase to $16.50 an hour in New York City and Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties and to $15.50 an hour in all other parts of the state, according to the state Labor Department.

San Diego plans to raise the minimum wage next year under the terms of the city's 2016 Minimum Wage Ordinance.

The change represents an automatic raise for anyone earning the minimum, while also rippling out. Driving the news: On Jan.1, San Diego's minimum wage will increase from $16.85 an hour to $17.25. That's more than California's minimum wage,

Workers in San Diego are set to receive a pay bump heading into the new year, when a new minimum wage goes into effect for the city.