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| massachusetts minimum wage history: Report Of The Minimum Wage Commission Of Massachusetts, Volumes 1-7 Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission, |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The Minimum Wage Merchants and manufacturers of Massachusetts, 1916 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Report of the Commission On Minimum Wage Boards Massachusetts Commission on Minimum, 2023-07-18 Explore the roots of American labor laws with this insightful report detailing the findings of the Massachusetts Commission on Minimum Wage Boards in 1912. Henry Lefavour offers a compelling argument for the necessity of fair labor practices, and provides valuable historical context for ongoing debates about economic justice. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Minimum Wage Legislation in Massachusetts National Industrial Conference Board, 1927 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Minimum Wages David Neumark, William L. Wascher, 2008 A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Enforcement of Minimum Wage Decrees in Massachusetts, 1920 Massachusetts. Minimum Wage Commission, 1920 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Bulletin Massachusetts. Dept. of Labor and Industry. Division of Minimum Wage, 1914 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Massachusetts Labor Legislation Sarah Scovill Whittelsey, 1900 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: State Minimum Wages , 2010 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The Book of the States Council of State Governments, 2008-06 The Book of the States contains essential and hard-to-find information from each state and territory in easy-to-read summaries, tables and charts. Published since 1935, The Book of the States has been the reference tool of choice for over half-a-century, providing information, answers and comparisons about all 56 U.S. states and territories. Your reference collection will not be complete without this invaluable source. Published annually. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: A Brief History of the New York Minimum Wage Case United States. Women's Bureau, 1936 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Minimum Wage Standards: Oct. 20-22, 24, 27-30, 1947 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, 1947 Considers legislation to raise the minimum wage standards of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Minimum Wage Standards United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, 1947 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Labor Laws of the United States Series , 1917 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The Minimum Wage: A Failing Experiment: Together With Some Sidelights On The Massachusetts Experience Merchants and Manufacturers of Massachus, 2019-03-22 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality Over Three Decades David H. Autor, Alan Manning, Christopher L. Smith, 2010 We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than half as large as those reported elsewhere and are almost negligible for males. Nevertheless, the estimated effects extend to wage percentiles where the minimum is nominally non-binding, implying spillovers. However, we show that spillovers and measurement error (absent spillovers) have similar implications for the effect of the minimum on the shape of the lower tail of the measured wage distribution. With available precision, we cannot reject the hypothesis that estimated spillovers to non-binding percentiles are due to reporting artifacts. Accepting this null, the implied effect of the minimum wage on the actual wage distribution is smaller than the effect of the minimum wage on the measured wage distribution. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Monthly Labor Review , 1916 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Monthly Labor Review United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1947 Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The President's Reemployment Agreement United States. National Recovery Administration, H. Conrad Hoover, 1936 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, 1881 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Making Minimum Wage Helen J. Knowles, 2021-08-05 The US Supreme Court’s 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington State’s minimum wage law for women, had monumental consequences for all American workers. It also marked a major shift in the Court’s response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda. In Making Minimum Wage, Helen J. Knowles tells the human story behind this historic case. West Coast Hotel v. Parrish pitted a Washington State hotel against a chambermaid, Elsie Parrish, who claimed that she was owed the state’s minimum wage. The hotel argued that under the concept of “freedom of contract,” the US Constitution allowed it to pay its female workers whatever low wages they were willing to accept. Knowles unpacks the legal complexities of the case while telling the litigants’ stories. Drawing on archival and private materials, including the unpublished memoir of Elsie’s lawyer, C. B. Conner, Knowles exposes the profound courage and resolve of the former chambermaid. Her book reveals why Elsie—who, in her mid-thirties was already a grandmother—was fired from her job at the Cascadian Hotel in Wenatchee, and why she undertook the outsized risk of suing the hotel for back wages. Minimum wage laws are “not an academic question or even a legal one,” Elinore Morehouse Herrick, the New York director of the National Labor Relations Board, said in 1936. Rather, they are “a human problem.” A pioneering analysis that illuminates the life stories behind West Coast Hotel v. Parrish as well as the case’s impact on local, state, and national levels, Making Minimum Wage vividly demonstrates the fundamental truth of Morehouse Herrick’s statement. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Progress of State Minimum-wage Legislation, 1949-50 Alice A. Morrison, 1950 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The Fissured Workplace David Weil, 2014-02-17 In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety protections, and ever-widening income inequality. From the perspectives of CEOs and investors, fissuring--splitting off functions that were once managed internally--has been phenomenally successful. Despite giving up direct control to subcontractors and franchises, these large companies have figured out how to maintain the quality of brand-name products and services, without the cost of maintaining an expensive workforce. But from the perspective of workers, this strategy has meant stagnation in wages and benefits and a lower standard of living. Weil proposes ways to modernize regulatory policies so that employers can meet their obligations to workers while allowing companies to keep the beneficial aspects of this business strategy. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research Josephus Nelson Larned, 1923 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Colony, Province and State: Twentieth century Massachusetts, 1889-1930 Albert Bushnell Hart, 1930 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The Race between Education and Technology Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz, 2009-07-01 This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century. The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and what might be done to ameliorate it. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Myth and Measurement David Card, Alan B. Krueger, 2015-12-22 From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wage David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of recent episodes, including the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 1990–91 increases in the federal minimum wage. In each case they present a battery of evidence showing that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs. A distinctive feature of Card and Krueger's research is the use of empirical methods borrowed from the natural sciences, including comparisons between the treatment and control groups formed when the minimum wage rises for some workers but not for others. In addition, the authors critically reexamine the previous literature on the minimum wage and find that it, too, lacks support for the claim that a higher minimum wage cuts jobs. Finally, the effects of the minimum wage on family earnings, poverty outcomes, and the stock market valuation of low-wage employers are documented. Overall, this book calls into question the standard model of the labor market that has dominated economists' thinking on the minimum wage. In addition, it will shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage in Washington and in state legislatures throughout the country. With a new preface discussing new data, Myth and Measurement continues to shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Bulletin (1901-195 ) Brooklyn Public Library, 1912 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The New Larned History , 1923 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Monthly Review of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1916 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Trade Unionism and Labor Problems John Rogers Commons, 1921 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin , 1916 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service Public Affairs Information Service, 1920 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service, a Cooperative Clearing House of Public Affairs Information Public Affairs Information Service, 1916 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Historical Outlook , 1924 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Mary P. Follett Joan C. Tonn, 2008-10-01 Mary P. Follett (1868–1933) brought new dimensions to the theory and practice of management and was one of America’s preeminent thinkers about democracy and social organization. The ideas Follett developed in the early twentieth century continue even today to challenge thinking about business and civic concerns. This book, the first biography of Follett, illuminates the life of this intriguing woman and reveals how she developed her farsighted theories about the organization of human relations. Out of twenty years of civic work in Boston’s immigrant neighborhoods, Follett developed ideas about the group basis of democracy and the foundations of social interaction that placed her among leading progressive intellectuals. Later in her career, she delivered influential lectures on business management that form the basis of our contemporary discourse about collaborative leadership, worker empowerment, self-managed teams, conflict resolution, the value of inclusivity and diversity, and corporate social responsibility. |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Titles. Subjects. Periodical shelf list Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 1984 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Monthly labor review. v. 3, 1916 , 1916 |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: Impatient Crusader: Florence Kelley’s Life Story Josephine Clara Goldmark, 2020-02-26 Florence Kelley (1859-1932) fought to implement child labor laws, minimum wages, maximum working hours, industrial health control, prenatal care to lower maternal and infant mortality. She was among the late 19th and early 20th centuries militant women, including Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Lillian Wald and others, who have come to be called social reformers. Her close friend and fellow worker, Josephine Goldmark (1877-1950), tells a sympathetic yet richly detailed story of Florence Kelley’s energetic life and accomplishments. At the turn of the 20th century and afterward, the 12-hour workday and the 7-day workweek prevailed in many industries. The sweatshop was commonplace. In most states women and young girls worked long hours unregulated by law. Child labor, beginning at age 10 or 12, was the normal pattern for the poor. That such social evils have largely disappeared is due in large part to the insistent and impatient crusading of Florence Kelley as Chief Inspector of Factories for Illinois; at Hull House in Chicago and the Henry Street Settlement in New York; as General Secretary of the National Consumers League; to establish the U.S. Children’s Bureau; in the National Woman Suffrage Association, the National Child Labor Committee and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Florence Kelley worked with the law, especially with Boston lawyer Louis D. Brandeis, spent herself tirelessly in research to document the legal basis for shorter working hours for women, an investigation now famous as the “Brandeis Brief.” Indignant and eloquent, she stimulated the investigation of the use of radium in luminous paint, to end deaths from poisoning of dial painters in watch factories. “When Mrs. Kelley began her career as chief factory inspector in Illinois in 1893 there were no minimum wage laws. The 12-hour-day and 7-day-week prevailed in the steel industry. Sweat shops were legion. Tenement home work which enlisted mothers and children at low wages and long hours was the rule. These were the evils which Mrs. Kelley fought as a pioneer. In these pages Josephine Goldmark, her friend, associate and fellow worker, brings home to us in simple and vivid language the story of that long, patient struggle which paved the way for later reforms.” — Louis Stark, The New York Times “A more sympathetic biographer for the late Florence Kelley could scarcely have been found than the scholarly woman who was her co-worker during thirty of the forty years of her immensely active public career. Josephine Goldmark’s life of Mrs. Kelley is fine alike for the delicacy of its insights into her colleague’s basic motivations and for its tact in presenting the controversial aspects of her life and of the important legislative reforms in which she played a decisive role.” — Louise M. Young, The American Historical Review “Impatient Crusader is certainly a perfect title for a biography of Florence Kelley... [it] provides exciting reading as it traces the work of a great woman in many of the social reforms of the first half of the twentieth century.” — Helen R. Wright, Social Service Review “The interesting life-story of Florence Kelley, one of the militant, dedicated women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book, by one of her fellow workers, makes vivid the early crusades for child labor laws, minimum wages, maximum hours, and industrial health control.” — Current History “[An] excellent biography of Mrs. Kelley and her times.” — Irving Dilliard, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |
| massachusetts minimum wage history: The Female Economy Wendy Gamber, 1997 The Female Economy explores that lost world of women's dominance, showing how independent, often ambitious businesswomen and the sometimes imperious consumers they served gradually vanished from the scene as custom production gave way to a largely unskilled modern garment industry controlled by men. Wendy Gamber helps overturn the portrait of wage-earning women as docile souls who would find fulfillment only in marriage and motherhood. |
The Massachusetts Minimum Wage: Past, Present and Future
March 1912: Workers in Lawrence, MA go on strike and win higher wages. June, 1912: Chapter 706 of the Acts of 1912 requires new wage boards in Massachusetts to set wage rates …
I. BASIC MINIMUM WAGE - Mass.gov
I. BASIC MINIMUM WAGE: January 1, 2019 $12.00 per hour; January 1, 2020 $12.75 per hour; January 1, 2021 $13.50 per hour; January 1, 2022 $14.25 per hour;
What is the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Really Worth? - Mass.
In real terms, the Massachusetts minimum wage is now well below its value in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968, the Massachusetts minimum wage reached an inflation-adjusted peak of …
Topical Outline of Massachusetts Minimum Wage and Overtime …
5 Jun 2002 · Under Massachusetts minimum wage and overtimes laws, a live-in home health aide working in a private residence must be paid at least the statutory minimum wage and time and …
WHAT’S IT WORTH? THE VALUE OF THE MINIMUM WAGE IN …
The Massachusetts Minimum Wage is Higher Than the Federal Requirement, But Lower Than Six Other States and D.C State Minimum Wages as of January 2013 (striped bars=states that …
Historical state and sub-state minimum wage data
Massachusetts became the first state to pass a minimum wage law as a way to protect women and child laborers from discrimination. Over the next decade, thirteen more states followed …
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO THE MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE
For further information regarding the Massachusetts state minimum wage, contact the Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards at (617) 626-6952 or visit www.mass.gov/dols. …
MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE Massachusetts Wage & Hour …
MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE. Massachusetts Wage & Hour Laws. Minimum Wage. M.G.L. Chapter 151, Sections 1, 2, 2A, and 7. Beginning January 1, 2023, the minimum wage …
THE RISE OF AMERICAN MINIMUM WAGES, 1912-1968 …
A History of American Minimum Wage Legislation In the early 1900s, labor law was the responsibility of state and local governments. Massachusetts enacted the first law for women …
The Minimum Wage in Massachusetts: Challenges & Opportunities
This year, a full-time, year round minimum wage worker will only earn $18,720, pre-tax. And by 2017, this worker will only earn $21,882, pre-tax (adjusted for inflation).
Massachusetts and the Minimum Wage - JSTOR
MASSACHUSETTS AND THE MINIMUM WAGE BY H. LARUE BROWN, Chairmnan, Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission, Boston. The Beginnings In 1911, representatives …
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968 - JSTOR
efforts to obtain a minimum wage only for women and children. Their efforts met with success when Massachusetts enacted the first minimum wage law in 1912. Oregon soon followed in …
The Economics of a Higher Minimum Wage in Massachusetts
Massachusetts minimum wage would cost the state 26,970 jobs. The preponderance of this loss would be among low wage workers, women workers and workers 20 years old and older. Most …
Frequently Asked Questions Related to the $15 Minimum Wage
Massachusetts’ minimum wage is $11 an hour. The minimum wage increase to $11 an hour occurred in three annual steps of one dollar each, starting in 2015 and going through 2017.
Minimum-Wage Effects by Neighborhood: A Preliminary Analysis
Over the past several years, the minimum wage in Massachusetts has increased from $8 to $12 per hour, and recent legislation has mandated further increases up to $15 per hour by …
THE MINIMUM WAGE: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - Mass.
How much is the minimum wage in Massachusetts? The Massachusetts minimum wage is $8.00 per hour. Six states and the District of Columbia currently have minimum wages higher than …
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO THE MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE
MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE In accordance with An Act Restoring the Minimum Wage and Providing Unemployment Insurance Reforms Chapter 144 of the Acts of 2014 Effective …
FAQ: The Massachusetts $15 Minimum Wage Proposal
Projections show that increasing the minimum wage from its current $11 level to $15 in 2023 would raise the wages of about 840,000 workers, or 25 percent of the workforce statewide. …
The Massachusetts Minimum Wage: Past, Present and Future
In 1912 Massachusetts Passed the First Minimum Wage Law in the U.S. March 1912: Workers in Lawrence, MA go on strike and win higher wages. June, 1912: Chapter 706 of the Acts of 1912 requires new wage boards in Massachusetts to set wage rates sufficient “to supply the necessary cost of living and to maintain the workers in health.”
The Massachusetts Minimum Wage: Past, Present and Future
March 1912: Workers in Lawrence, MA go on strike and win higher wages. June, 1912: Chapter 706 of the Acts of 1912 requires new wage boards in Massachusetts to set wage rates sufficient “to supply the necessary cost of living and to maintain the workers in health.”
I. BASIC MINIMUM WAGE - Mass.gov
I. BASIC MINIMUM WAGE: January 1, 2019 $12.00 per hour; January 1, 2020 $12.75 per hour; January 1, 2021 $13.50 per hour; January 1, 2022 $14.25 per hour;
What is the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Really Worth?
In real terms, the Massachusetts minimum wage is now well below its value in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968, the Massachusetts minimum wage reached an inflation-adjusted peak of $8.46 per hour, 28.6 percent higher than its present level.
Topical Outline of Massachusetts Minimum Wage and Overtime …
5 Jun 2002 · Under Massachusetts minimum wage and overtimes laws, a live-in home health aide working in a private residence must be paid at least the statutory minimum wage and time and one-half for any hours worked in excess of forty hours in a given work week.
WHAT’S IT WORTH? THE VALUE OF THE MINIMUM WAGE IN MASSACHUSETTS
The Massachusetts Minimum Wage is Higher Than the Federal Requirement, But Lower Than Six Other States and D.C State Minimum Wages as of January 2013 (striped bars=states that index increases to inflation)
Historical state and sub-state minimum wage data
Massachusetts became the first state to pass a minimum wage law as a way to protect women and child laborers from discrimination. Over the next decade, thirteen more states followed suit, creating a pastiche of minimum wage regulations that were gender, age, or even industry-specific (Atkas 2015).
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO THE MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE
For further information regarding the Massachusetts state minimum wage, contact the Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards at (617) 626-6952 or visit www.mass.gov/dols. In no case shall the Massachusetts minimum wage rate be less than $0.50 higher than the effective federal minimum rate.
MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE Massachusetts Wage
MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE. Massachusetts Wage & Hour Laws. Minimum Wage. M.G.L. Chapter 151, Sections 1, 2, 2A, and 7. Beginning January 1, 2023, the minimum wage in Massachusetts is . $15/hour. In Massachusetts, all workers are presumed to be employees. The minimum wage applies to . all. employees, except:
THE RISE OF AMERICAN MINIMUM WAGES, 1912-1968 …
A History of American Minimum Wage Legislation In the early 1900s, labor law was the responsibility of state and local governments. Massachusetts enacted the first law for women and minors in 1912.
The Minimum Wage in Massachusetts: Challenges & Opportunities
This year, a full-time, year round minimum wage worker will only earn $18,720, pre-tax. And by 2017, this worker will only earn $21,882, pre-tax (adjusted for inflation).
Massachusetts and the Minimum Wage - JSTOR
MASSACHUSETTS AND THE MINIMUM WAGE BY H. LARUE BROWN, Chairmnan, Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission, Boston. The Beginnings In 1911, representatives of a number of groups of Massachusetts people who had been studying social and industrial conditions and were particularly interested in the situation of our 350,000 working
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968 - JSTOR
efforts to obtain a minimum wage only for women and children. Their efforts met with success when Massachusetts enacted the first minimum wage law in 1912. Oregon soon followed in 1913 and in the next decade Washington, DC, and 14 more states joined them. Table 1 lists the states that enacted minimum wage laws from
The Economics of a Higher Minimum Wage in Massachusetts
Massachusetts minimum wage would cost the state 26,970 jobs. The preponderance of this loss would be among low wage workers, women workers and workers 20 years old and older. Most workers affected by the increase would, to be sure, keep their jobs and, in doing so, enjoy higher wages. The wage gain for these fortunate workers would be about $405
Frequently Asked Questions Related to the $15 Minimum Wage
Massachusetts’ minimum wage is $11 an hour. The minimum wage increase to $11 an hour occurred in three annual steps of one dollar each, starting in 2015 and going through 2017.
Minimum-Wage Effects by Neighborhood: A Preliminary Analysis
Over the past several years, the minimum wage in Massachusetts has increased from $8 to $12 per hour, and recent legislation has mandated further increases up to $15 per hour by 2023—changes that may come as particularly welcome news to communities with higher concentrations of minimum-wage workers.
THE MINIMUM WAGE: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How much is the minimum wage in Massachusetts? The Massachusetts minimum wage is $8.00 per hour. Six states and the District of Columbia currently have minimum wages higher than Massachusetts, and 11 states have minimum wages that are higher than the federal requirement but lower than Massachusetts.
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO THE MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE
MASSACHUSETTS MINIMUM WAGE In accordance with An Act Restoring the Minimum Wage and Providing Unemployment Insurance Reforms Chapter 144 of the Acts of 2014 Effective January 1, 2021 MINIMUM WAGE: $13.50 PER HOUR The minimum wage law applies to all employees except those being rehabilitated
FAQ: The Massachusetts $15 Minimum Wage Proposal
Projections show that increasing the minimum wage from its current $11 level to $15 in 2023 would raise the wages of about 840,000 workers, or 25 percent of the workforce statewide. That includes 19 percent of all working parents.
