Increase to Minimum Wage 1st April 2025

The Workplace Relations and Safety Minister has announced that the adult minimum wage will be rising to $23.50 per hour from 1 April 2025. This is an increase of 35 cents per hour from the current hourly rate of $23.15.

The training and starting-out minimum wages will also both increase to $18.80 per hour, remaining at 80% of the adult minimum wage. This is a rise from the current minimum rate of $18.52 per hour.

For an employee who works 40 hours a week, the minimum wage increase to $23.50 per hour means they will earn an extra $14 each week before tax.

Around 141,900 New Zealand workers who are currently earning between the current and new minimum wage rates should get an increase in their pay packets as a result of the change in the minimum wage.