This article presents novel fndings on company factors that determine judgments regarding the fairness of minimum wage increases. Drawing on minimum wage and organizational justice research, we conducted a factorial survey among German employees. It seems that the internal wage structure plays a crucial role because raising only the pay of minimum wage workers and not that of other employees causes a minimum wage increase to be rated as less fair. While a hiring freeze does not negatively infuence fairness judgments, layofs do. Finally, if a minimum wage increase adversely afects a company’s economic situation, respondents assess it as less fair.