Charter/Spectrum ups company’s minimum wage to $18 an hour, says it’s hiring for 3,000 positions - MassLive.com

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The broadband company Charter/Spectrum announced it is hiring for thousands of positions and has raised its company’s minimum wage to $18, part of the business’s efforts to get to a $20 starting wage for all employees in the next year.

As part of its announcement Tuesday, the company said virtually all current and newly hired salaried and hourly employees will now earn at least $18 an hour and receive paid benefits, including medical, life and disability, education, training and retirement plans.

“Charter is a place where employees can continuously learn and progress in their development,” said Tom Rutledge, CEO of the company. “Building, selling and servicing an advanced broadband network, conventional and streaming video, with fixed and wireless mobile products for home and business, creates ongoing career opportunities.”

Charter Communications is a broadband connectivity company that provides internet and WiFi services to customers through the brand Spectrum.

The company set a $15 starting wage in 2018 and announced in April 2020 it would permanently raise its minimum wage to $20 an hour in 2022, adding annual increases of $1.50 an hour in 2020 and 2021 to boost the starting wage to $16.50 an hour and then $18, respectively.

The minimum wage has been a hot topic as of late, with members of the Democratic-majority U.S. Congress seeking to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. States’ minimum wages vary, but the federal one hasn’t increased beyond $7.25 since 2009.

Democratic lawmakers’ efforts to include the minimum wage hike in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, called the “American Rescue Plan,” failed. However, progressive legislators, like U.S. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, have said they aren’t putting the brakes on a $15 minimum wage bump just yet.

“We will not stop,” Markey told reporters in a virtual news conference Sunday.

According to Charter/Spectrum, the company is currently hiring for nearly 3,000 positions across 41 states. The positions all feature its $18 starting wage.

In January, the city of Worcester and Charter/Spectrum reached an agreement following months of negotiations to provide better low-cost internet for public school students and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Internet access has been a problem in the city for years before the public health crisis. Over the summer, the Worcester Regional Research Bureau published a report saying 18% of households in the community had no internet access.

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