New York order brief
Published local guides: Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, White Plains, Yonkers.
First decision
Albany sits in the $16.00-an-hour tier of New York's regional minimum wage as of January 1, 2026. the NYS Department of Labor's rest-of-state rate, a dollar below the downstate tier, moving to CPI indexing in 2027. and the city adds no ordinance of its own on top.
Published references
Role references currently span $32.50–$79.50/hr. Each number below links to the city row that publishes it.
Worksite evidence
The Forum Theatre at 236 Washington Street is a 1,500-seat 1919 movie palace reopened as a performing arts venue in 1975, home to Broadway in Binghamton, the Tri-Cities Opera, and the Binghamton Philharmonic, a few blocks from the arena downtown.
The Buffalo Bills' new Highmark Stadium opened June 23, 2026, across the street from the demolished former stadium in Orchard Park; it seats 60,108, the smallest capacity in the NFL. The Bills' 2026 regular-season home opener is a nationally televised Thursday Night Football game against the Detroit Lions on September 17, 2026, the first regular-season game at the new building after 52 years at the old site.
Cornell's 2026 Commencement runs Saturday, May 23 at Schoellkopf Field in two back-to-back ceremonies, 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., for a graduating class of more than 8,000 with roughly 3,000 attending each ceremony; all central-campus roads close from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and shuttles run guests in from outlying lots.
