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Graph and download economic data for Estimated Mean Real Household Wages Adjusted by Cost of Living for Essex County, MA (MWACL25009) from 2009 to 2023 about Essex County, MA; Boston; adjusted; MA; average; wages; real; and USA.
In 2024, households in California needed an hourly wage of over 47 U.S. dollars to afford the rent of a two-bedroom apartment. Massachusetts had the second-least affordable two-bedroom apartments, as a household would have to earn at least around 45 U.S. dollars per hour in order to afford rent payments. These figures are considerably higher than the average minimum wage in place in many states. There was no state in which a minimum wage worker could afford rent for the average two-bedroom apartment, if they only worked 40 hours a week. Where are the least affordable counties and metros? The least affordable rents were predominately in Californian counties and metropolitan areas in 2024. District of Columbia has one of the highest minimum wages in the country, which stood at 17 U.S. dollars per hour as of January 2024. Thus, the affordability of two-bedroom apartments highlights how disproportionately high housing costs are in the state.
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State Minimum Wage Rate for Massachusetts was 15.00000 $ per Hour in January of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, State Minimum Wage Rate for Massachusetts reached a record high of 15.00000 in January of 2023 and a record low of 1.60000 in January of 1969. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for State Minimum Wage Rate for Massachusetts - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.
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How well does public policy represent mass preferences in U.S. states? Current approaches provide an incomplete account of statehouse democracy because they fail to compare preferences and policies on meaningful scales. Here we overcome this problem by generating estimates of Americans' preferences on the minimum wage and compare them to observed policies both within and across states. Because we measure both preferences and policies on the same scale (U.S. dollars), we can quantify both the association of policy outcomes with preferences across states (responsiveness) and their deviation within states (bias). We demonstrate that while minimum wages respond to corresponding preferences across states, policy outcomes are more conservative than preferences in each state, with the average policy bias amounting to about two dollars. We also show that policy bias is substantially smaller in states with access to direct democratic institutions.
This statistic shows the median household income in the United States from 1990 to 2023 in 2023 U.S. dollars. The median household income was 80,610 U.S. dollars in 2023, an increase from the previous year. Household incomeThe median household income depicts the income of households, including the income of the householder and all other individuals aged 15 years or over living in the household. Income includes wages and salaries, unemployment insurance, disability payments, child support payments received, regular rental receipts, as well as any personal business, investment, or other kinds of income received routinely. The median household income in the United States varies from state to state. In 2020, the median household income was 86,725 U.S. dollars in Massachusetts, while the median household income in Mississippi was approximately 44,966 U.S. dollars at that time. Household income is also used to determine the poverty line in the United States. In 2021, about 11.6 percent of the U.S. population was living in poverty. The child poverty rate, which represents people under the age of 18 living in poverty, has been growing steadily over the first decade since the turn of the century, from 16.2 percent of the children living below the poverty line in year 2000 to 22 percent in 2010. In 2021, it had lowered to 15.3 percent. The state with the widest gap between the rich and the poor was New York, with a Gini coefficient score of 0.51 in 2019. The Gini coefficient is calculated by looking at average income rates. A score of zero would reflect perfect income equality and a score of one indicates a society where one person would have all the money and all other people have nothing.
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Graph and download economic data for Estimated Mean Real Household Wages Adjusted by Cost of Living for Franklin County, MA (MWACL25011) from 2016 to 2023 about Franklin County, MA; Springfield; adjusted; MA; average; wages; real; and USA.
In 2023, the median hourly earnings of wage and salary workers in the United States was 19.24 U.S. dollars. This is an increase from 1979, when median hourly earnings were at 4.44 U.S. dollars. Hourly Workers The United States national minimum wage is 7.25 U.S. dollars per hour, which has been the minimum wage since 2009. However, each state has the agency to set their state minimum wage. Furthermore, some cities are able to create their minimum wage. Many argue that the minimum wage is too low and should be raised, because it is not considered a living wage. There has been a movement to raise the minimum wage to 15 U.S. dollars per hour, called “Fight for 15” which began in the early 2010s. While there has been no movement at the federal level, some states have moved to increase their minimum wages, with at least three states and the District of Columbia setting minimum wage rates at or above 15 dollars per hour. More recently, some proponents of increasing the minimum wage say that 15 dollars is too low, and lawmakers should strive toward a higher goal, especially given that a 2021 analysis found that the minimum wage in the U.S. should be 22.88 U.S. dollars if it grew at the same rate as economic productivity. Salary Workers On the other hand, salary workers in the United States do not get paid on an hourly basis. The median weekly earnings of salary workers have significantly increased since 1979. Asian salary workers had the highest hourly earnings in the U.S. in 2021. Among female salary workers, those ages 45 to 54 years old had the highest median hourly earnings in 2021, likewise for male salary workers.
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In 2023, the real median household income in the state of Alabama was 60,660 U.S. dollars. The state with the highest median household income was Massachusetts, which was 106,500 U.S. dollars in 2023. The average median household income in the United States was at 80,610 U.S. dollars.
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Attitudes to the current political situation in the GDR, future expectations and stand on German-German unification. Topics: Evaluation of personal prospects for the future; stand on remaining in Eastern Germany; reasons against remaining in Eastern Germany (scale); goals in life (scale); expectations of immediate development on the territory of the GDR regarding economic upturn, social security, new jobs, just pay, mass unemployment, equal rights of Germans, willingness to make sacrifices by the citizens of the FRG, wage increase; evaluation of personal prospects for the future in various areas of life (scale); change in the cost of living since currency union; comparison of income and cost of living; evaluation of statements on willingness to work in a different occupation, expenditure of German Marks just for products from the West, demonstrations against the economic policy of the government, strikes for higher wages, wage demands only depending on higher work productivity; attitude to regulation of the right to asylum in the GDR for politically persecuted or economic refugees; personal interest in politics; evaluation of the demand for unity of Germany within the borders of 1937; stand on actions against foreigners; stand on German-German unification and the speed of the unification process; predicted time required until achievement of equivalent living conditions in East and West; participation and party preference in the election for the East German Parliament on 18 Mar. 1990; intended participation and party preference in the election of the state government and the all-German Federal Parliament election; preferred governing party; trust in politicians from East and West (scale); trust in various parties (scale); membership in parties and movements; religiousness; full-time or part-time employment; current job security and prospect of a new job; feeling of being threatened in view of increase in cost of living, crime, aggressiveness and violence, right-wing and left-wing radicalism, drug abuse, increasing egoism, personal unemployment; self-assessment of psychological condition (scale); satisfaction with economic, political and social situations such as housing conditions, standard of living, income, pension, earnings-related unemployment benefit, life all in all; personal identity; evaluation of experiences with the market economy; Supplemental form: possession and intended purchase of a car; age and brand of desired car; maximum expenditure for a car and planned borrowing.
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