Wage Issues in American Samoa
Navarro, Martin H
In American Samoa, the first minimum wage increase raised the wages of about three-quarters of workers at private sector employers. By 2016, the minimum wage increases would affect the wages of close to 95 percent of those employers' private sector workers. Earnings data show that employment grew from 2006 to 2008, but employment dropped from 2008 to 2009, since the September 2009 closing of one tuna cannery. Cannery officials said that minimu...