Athol Daily News: Mass. minimum wage to rise to $12 on Jan 1st
Athol Daily News, Dec 28, 2018
BOSTON – On January 1, 2019, 662,000 low-wage workers in Massachusetts will get a raise when the state’s minimum wage rises from $11 to $12 an hour, the first of five annual increases laid out in legislation passed this spring that will bring the minimum wage to $15 an hour in 2023. Also on January 1, the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers will rise from $3.75 to $4.35 an hour. ...
According to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, this year’s minimum wage increase will raise the wages of...