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New Jersey's hourly workers will get a pay raise on January first. That's when the statewide minimum wage will hit 15-dollars-13-cents an hour, up a dollar from 2023. Phil Murphy had pledged to work with lawmakers to implement a 15-dollar-an hour minimum while first campaigning for Governor. When he took office in 2018, New Jersey's minimum wage was just eight-sixty an hour. Murphy says he's proud of exceeding the 15-dollar an hour benchmark, saying he's hopeful that millions of New Jerseyans will be able to secure a better future in the middle class.