Author: Cody Ross

  Montana’s Unemployment Rate Drops to 2.8% Montana’s unemployment rate has fallen to 2.8 percent, continuing the record of 43 consecutive months of unemployment at or below 3.4 percent.  According to the Governor’s office it’s the lowest unemployment rate since September 2023.  Montana’s rate was 1.2 percent lower than the national...

The Montana Department of Labor & Industry reminds Montana businesses and workers that the minimum wage will increase from $10.30 to $10.55 beginning on January 1, 2025. Montana law requires the minimum wage to be adjusted annually for inflation using the August estimates of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U). The CPI-U i...