“Clearly, the labor market in Metro Boston is competitive,” Wynn Resorts said in a statement. Around half of Encore’s 5,500 positions are expected to be unionized. Dishwashers, security guards, housekeepers, and call center workers will make around $20 an hour - with benefits including paid parental leave and 401(k) plans for full-time workers. Servers at Encore will make between $6.44 and $7.66 an hour, plus tips, well above the $4.35 state minimum that many servers make.
“I think everybody’s going to be trading notes: How many did you lose?” There’s all these people around town who are sitting on offers and they haven’t told their bosses,” said David Gibbons, executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, which lost an hourly employee to Encore after the license ruling, in addition to four or five senior managers who left more than a year ago.
