Minnesota Workers Get a Raise
7 Jan 2019
While Minnesota’s labor market has been getting tighter for several years, one expected outcome of that trend has been late to emerge – wage growth.
But a story by Dave Senf in the latest issue of Trends magazine documents that wage growth is finally occurring in many industries in the state. For the first time in years, Minnesota workers have bargaining power for pay increases or opportunities to switch to jobs offering fatter paychecks.
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