Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good news for minimum wage workers in Maine: in 2026, their paychecks will go up. Under Maine law, the state’s minimum wage must ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2026, the state’s minimum wage will for the first time extend to agricultural workers since Gov. Janet Mills signed a law in ...

Maine’s minimum wage is set to increase by 45 cents next year to $15.10 an hour in accordance with a state law requiring adjustments for inflation. The current statewide minimum wage, in place since ...

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PORTLAND (WGME) -- Maine's minimum wage is set to increase nearly 50 cents in less than four months. The Maine Department of Labor says that the state minimum wage will be $15.10 cents per hour ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - Maine’s minimum wage went up Jan. 1 The Maine Department of Labor announced the state minimum wage increase for this year is 45 cents, making the new minimum wage $15.10 per ...

With the new year comes a new base wage for Maine workers, which now after several years of effort includes those who pick and grow food on farms across the state. As of Thursday, Maine’s minimum wage ...

The Portland, Maine, City Council voted on Monday to send a citizen initiative seeking increases in the city’s minimum wage to voters for a decision in the upcoming November election. This now marks ...

Voters in Portland, Maine, just approved a ballot measure that will gradually increase the city’s minimum wage to $19 per hour by 2028. Here’s everything businesses operating in the city need to know ...

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Mainers earning the minimum wage will see another pay hike this year. The state hourly rate will now top more than $15. Maine's minimum wage jumped 45 cents on Jan. 1, from $14.65 to $15.10. The state ...

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