All employees engaged in hotel and motel occupations within New Jersey must be paid at minimum wage rates of not less than $15.13 an hour effective January 1, 2024.
The New Jersey Hotel and Motel Occupations Wage Order covers information on:
- Overtime rates
- Definitions
- Administrative regulations
- Penalties
The wage order also provides the Division of Wage and Hour contact information.
Posting Requirement
New Jersey employers in hotel and motel establishments must display the New Jersey Hotel and Motel Occupations Wage Order in a conspicuous location in the workplace.
The term “hotel and motel occupations” means any activity as an employee for an establishment kept, used, maintained, advertised as or held out to be a place where sleeping accommodations are supplied for pay to transient or permanent guests, in which fifteen or more rooms are available for rental, furnished or unfurnished. This definition does not include summer camps and country clubs when these activities are not part of a hotel or motel establishment.