New Jersey Pay Transparency Law Effective June 1, 2025

Many of our clients live or work in New Jersey. New Jersey is the latest state to advance pay transparency requirements. Effective June 1, 2025,employers with ten or more employees over twenty calendar weeks that do business, have employees or take applications in New Jersey must disclose the hourly wage or salary range in both internal and external job postings, as well as benefits or other compensation eligible to the employee.

Employers must make reasonable efforts to announce, post, or otherwise make known to current employees any opportunities for promotion that are advertised within the employer or externally.

The employee does not have to be located within New Jersey to be able to avail himself or herself of these rights as long as the employer does any business within New Jersey.

Any employer that fails to comply with the requirements of the bill would be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $300 for the first violation and $600 for each subsequent violation. The bill provides the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development with the power to enforce these penalties. Applicants and employees would not have a private right of action.