Economy Improving?

If the pay package offered at Gilbert & O’Bryan LLP is any indication of the economy, things are not headed in a good direction. The small Boston law firm posted a full-time position for which the employee can expect “to earn $10,000 in compensation in the first year.”

A minimum wage worker in Massachusetts makes about $16,000 a year.

The low compensation raises legal questions.

“In general an employee who is not exempt from wage and hour requirements has to be paid minimum wage for every hour they work,” said Josh Davis, a partner with Boston’s Goulston & Storrs. “If an exemption applies, that may not be true.”