New England Economy - Minimum Wage Workers

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New England Economy - Minimum Wage Workers

Employed wage and salary workers paid hourly rates with earnings at or below the prevailing Federal minimum wage for the New England States, 2006 annual averages
State	Number of workers (in thousands)				Percent distribution				Percent of workers paid hourly
	Total paid hourly rates	At or below $5.15 per hour			Total paid hourly rates	At or below $5.15 per hour			At or below $5.15 per hour
	Total paid hourly rates	Total	At $5.15	Below $5.15	Total paid hourly rates	Total	At $5.15	Below $5.15	Total	At $5.15	Below $5.15
United States	76,514	1,692	409	1,283	100	100	100	100	2.2	0.5	1.7
Connecticut	914	13	2	11	1.2	0.8	0.5	0.9	1.4	0.2	1.2
Maine	397	9	1	8	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.6	2.3	0.3	2.0
Massachusetts	1,619	35	1	34	2.1	2.1	0.2	2.7	2.2	0.1	2.1
New Hampshire	370	8	1	7	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.5	2.2	0.3	1.9
Rhode Island	321	(1)	(1)	7	0.4	(1)	(1)	0.5	(1)	(1)	2.2
Vermont	199	(1)	(1)	3	0.3	(1)	(1)	0.2	(1)	(1)	1.5

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.

(1) Data not shown here where base is less than 1,000.

Last Modified Date: February 5, 2007

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