Lawmakers are pondering another minimum wage hike. How would it affect Quincy businesses?
QUINCY − When Calli McPherson opened William James Gifts in August 2020, the minimum wage in Massachusetts was $12.75. Flash forward to 2023, and M...
QUINCY − When Calli McPherson opened William James Gifts in August 2020, the minimum wage in Massachusetts was $12.75. Flash forward to 2023, and McPherson said the recently increased minimum wage to $15 per hour didn't overly affect her bottom line. But a new bill that hopes to push the hourly rate to $20 would require a little more financial finagling. 'We can keep up, but we would have to make adjustments throughout our business to account for that," McPherson, who pays her three part-time employees more than the current minimum wage, said.