As the ball drops, minimum-wage workers in New York will see a pay rise.
The minimum wage is going up around the state on Dec. 31.
The highest wages will be in New York City, where fast-food workers and employees of businesses with 11 or more people will see their minimum hourly pay go up to $15 from $13.
That will make New York City join Seattle and San Francisco as the major American cities to have hit that benchmark.
For minimum-wage workers, the bump is a cause of celebration. But some business owners are more stressed as they try to figure out how to adjust to higher labor costs.