New Hampshire’s Minimum Wage will increase to $7.25 in 2008

The minimum wage in New Hampshire will increase to $7.25 per hour on September 1, 2008.

On September 1, 2007, the minimum wage in the state of New Hampshire increased form the original $5.85 per hour to $6.50 per hour after a decade without a raise. But that was only the first step of the minimum wage increase plan in that state according to the law signed by the New Hampshire’s Governor John Lynch on May 3, which marked the first New Hampshire minimum wage increase since 1997. The other step is to increase the minimum wage for many of the state's hourly workers from $6.50 per hour to $7.25 per hour on September 1,2008. The minimum wage is automatically replaced with the Federal minimum wage rate if it is higher than the State minimum wage rate.