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On Wednesday, the state’s minimum wage will increase to $12.75 per hour, up from $12. Two years ago, the Massachusetts Legislature approved a measure to increase the rate annually until it reaches $15 in 2023.

How will the hike in the minimum wage most impact your business?
We will have layoffs to offset the rising expense. (14%, 20 VOTES)
Our customers should expect our prices to increase. (40%, 55 VOTES)
In addition to our minimum wage workers, employees already earning $12.75 will get a raise. (10%, 14 VOTES)
We don’t anticipate any impact. (36%, 49 VOTES)
Poll Description

On Wednesday, the state’s minimum wage will increase to $12.75 per hour, up from $12. Two years ago, the Massachusetts Legislature approved a measure to increase the rate annually until it reaches $15 in 2023.

  • 138 Votes
  • 3 Comments
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3 Comments

  • January 1, 2020
    We will have to continue working all open hours as the price of all expenses for labor or help is too high. Check cashing and financial service industry.
  • December 31, 2019
    If raising the minimum wage really helps to reduce poverty, then we should raise it to $50 per hour and eliminate poverty altogether.
  • December 31, 2019

    Would be more helpful if the response had included the type of industry. Maybe the minimum wage won't affect the lawyer's office, IT, or medical device industries as much as the grocery, the car wash, the hardware store, the bank and the dry cleaner and health care. We should anticipate that prices must go up for some of those basic goods and services. It's a double whammy for those locales that are within easy driving distance of the NH border. NH has a lower minimum wage and no sales tax, making even harder to "Make It In Massachusetts."