Mississippi unemployment rate

Census household money income is measured before taxes and includes wages and specified cash benefits. Minimum-wage provisions concern earnings; tax credits and in-kind benefits are not themselves increases in this statistic. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Mississippi evidence context: Median household income. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

SECTION 2. (1) As used in this section, the following words and phrases have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) "Tipped employee" means an employee engaged in an occupation in which the employee customarily and regularly receives more than Thirty Dollars ($30.00) a month in tips. (b) "Manual laborers" and "blue collar workers" mean workers who perform work involving repetitive operations with their hands, physical skill and energy, who gain the skills and knowledge required for performance of their routine manual and physical work through apprenticeships and on-the-job training. (2) Every employer shall pay each of its employees wages at the rate of not less than Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) per hour, except as otherwise provided in this section. (3) Every employer shall pay each of its tipped employees wages at the rate of not less than Three Dollars Sixty-two Cents ($3.62) per hour. (4) Overtime must be compensated at a rate not less than one and one-half (1-1/2) times the regular rate at which the employee is actually employed. The regular rate of pay at which the employee is employed may in no event be less than the statutory minimum wage rate established in this section. All employees who receive Four Hundred Fifty-five Dollars ($455.00) or less per week, or equivalent amounts for periods of pay longer than one (1) week, are entitled to receive overtime pay. Additionally, the following people are not exempt from receiving overtime pay, regardless of their salary: (a) Manual laborers or other blue collar workers; (b) Police officers, detectives, deputy sheriffs, state troopers, highway patrol officers, investigators, inspectors, correctional officers, parole or probation officers, park rangers, firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, ambulance personnel, rescue workers, hazardous materials workers and similar employees who perform work such as: preventing, controlling or extinguishing fires of any type; rescuing fire, crime or accident victims; preventing or detecting crimes; conducting investigations or inspections for violations of law; performing surveillance; pursuing, restraining and apprehending suspects; detaining or supervising suspected and convicted criminals, including those on probation or parole; interviewing witnesses; interrogating and fingerprinting suspects; preparing investigative reports; or other similar work; (c) An employee whose primary duty is not management of the entity in which the employee is employed; (d) An employee whose primary duty is not the performance of work directly related to the management or general business operations of the employer or the employer's customers; and (e) An employee whose primary duty is not the performance of work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction or the performance of work requiring invention, imagination, originality or talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor. (5) Employers and employees who are not specifically mentioned in this section fall under the purview of the Fair Labor Standards Act.