Mass. minimum wage rises to $13.50
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A new minimum wage of $13.50 an hour across Massachusetts will go into effect with the new year starting Friday.
The new minimum wage — a step on the way to the milestone $15-an-hour by 2023 — will be a 75-cent increase from what went into effect for the start of 2020. For tipped workers such as restaurant servers, the minimum wage will rise to $5.55 from $4.95. Those workers are paid more if their tipped wages don't bring them to at least $13.50 an hour for a shift.
State legislators enacted a new law in 2018 that began the gradual increase in the minimum wage each year until 2023, when it'll hit $15 an hour.
Massachusetts has the second highest minimum wages nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Only Washington is higher, at $13.50 this year, which is set to rise to $13.69 with the new year on Friday. Washington, D.C., went to $15 an hour this year.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate in place in more than a dozen states, including New Hampshire.
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