“If you want to hire the best of the best, you may pay more for someone who is, say, in engineering than you may for someone coming in for a graphic design ... is the highest in Minnesota. Only ...

As of Jan. 1, a new Minnesota law was put into effect in order to narrow the racial and gender pay gap. It encourages employers to rely on skills or qualifications to set pay for the job applicant and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A law going into effect in the new year aims to shrink the pay gap between genders and ... pay during the hiring process. "In Minnesota, white women make 81 cents on the dollar.

"It was about a 35% gap, and I could not make ... Alan Benson, a University of Minnesota professor who specializes in compensation, said pay transparency laws work but have drawbacks.

WASHINGTON — Economists who study the gap between the rich and poor ... income inequality among the lowest 20% of wage earners — especially in Minnesota where there is a growing safety net.

The wage gap has remained largely unchanged over the past six years. Indeed released a report Thursday exploring how the difference varies by demographic and occupation, the largest barriers to ...