Timing Requirements for Wage Payments in Massachusetts

All employers — including the commonwealth but excluding its political subdivisions — are covered by Massachusetts' wage payment law.

Employers must pay wages earned by employees at least on a weekly or biweekly basis; holdovers of six days are permitted if on a five- or six-day workweek or seven days if on a seven-day week, except as provided below. Agricultural workers may be paid monthly; executive, administrative and professional employees, biweekly or semimonthly, unless they elect to be paid monthly; and casual employees, within seven days after end of period.