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New England Economy - Minimum Wage Workers
| Area and State | Number of workers (in thousands) | Percent distribution | Percent of workers paid hourly | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total paid hourly rates | At or below minimum wage | Total paid hourly rates | At or below minimum wage | At or below minimum wage | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | At minimum wage | Below minimum wage | Total | At minimum wage | Below minimum wage | Total | At minimum wage | Below minimum wage | ||||||||||||
|
United States |
75,873 | 1,729 | 267 | 1,462 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 1.9 | |||||||||
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New England |
3,694 | 105 | 5 | 100 | 4.9 | 6.1 | 1.9 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 2.7 | |||||||||
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Connecticut |
923 | 14 | - | 14 | 1.2 | 0.8 | - | 1.0 | 1.5 | - | 1.5 | |||||||||
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Maine |
399 | 9 | - | 9 | 0.5 | 0.5 | - | 0.6 | 2.3 | - | 2.3 | |||||||||
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Massachusetts |
1,505 | 60 | 2 | 58 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0.1 | 3.9 | |||||||||
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New Hampshire |
372 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 2.2 | |||||||||
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Rhode Island |
315 | 7 | - | 7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | - | 0.5 | 2.2 | - | 2.2 | |||||||||
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Vermont |
181 | 4 | - | 4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | - | 0.3 | 2.2 | - | 2.2 | |||||||||
NOTE: Data exclude all the self-employed, both unincorporated and incorporated. Users are reminded that these data are based on a sample and are therefore subject to sampling error; the degree of error may be quite large for less populous States. It is not possible to clearly determine whether workers surveyed in the CPS are actually covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or by individual State minimum wage laws. Thus, some workers reported as earning an hourly wage of $5.15 may not in fact be covered by Federal or State minimum wage laws. At the same time, the presence of a sizable number of workers with wages below the prevailing Federal minimum wage does not necessarily indicate violations of the FLSA or applicable State laws, because there are numerous exclusions and exemptions to these minimum wage statutes.
Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria.
The New England census division is defined as follows:
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Last Modified Date: May 30, 2008
