Understand what this website does, and does not, do.

Attorney advertising

This website is attorney advertising for Usher Law Group P.C., a New York professional corporation; “Proper Wage” is the name of this website, not a separate firm. Mikhail Usher, Esq., Managing Attorney, is responsible for its content. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Our attorneys are admitted in New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Pennsylvania as listed on each attorney’s profile; no attorney practices in a jurisdiction where he is not admitted. Admissions, forum rules, jurisdiction, and facts are evaluated for every matter.

No attorney-client relationship

Visiting this site or contacting Usher Law Group P.C. does not create an attorney-client relationship. Do not rely on the firm to protect a deadline or act for you unless representation is confirmed in a signed written agreement.

This website provides general information, not legal advice. Wage claims are subject to time limits that vary by law and state, and each paycheck has its own.

About the time-limit clock and overtime math

The two tools on the resources page perform simple date arithmetic and simple multiplication on figures you type. They apply general rules and the minimum-wage rates in force on January 1, 2026, and Florida’s rates before and after September 30, 2026. They do not account for earlier rates, tip credits, exemptions, tolling, defenses, liquidated damages, interest, statutory damages, or the many other things that determine what, if anything, a particular worker is owed. Their output is not legal advice, not an estimate of the value of any case, and not a promise of any result. Only a lawyer who has reviewed your facts can tell you what applies to you.

Images on this site

The portraits of the attorneys, and the images of the attorneys at a courthouse and with a client, are computer-generated illustrations based on the attorneys’ likenesses. They are not photographs. The scenes are dramatizations, not actual events, and the client shown is not a real person. The other images on this site are also computer-generated and do not show real clients, workers or workplaces.

How contact information is handled

The guided case-review form sends what you type to the firm’s server over an encrypted connection, and the server forwards it to the firm by email. The firm keeps that email with its intake records. The server keeps a short-term record of your network (IP) address to block automated abuse, and it does not store your message. This website sets no advertising or analytics cookies. It stores your “Reading options” and record-checklist choices only in your own browser (local storage), which you can clear at any time with the reset buttons or your browser settings; the time-limit clock and overtime math store nothing at all. Our hosting provider records standard server logs, such as IP address and pages requested, for security. Do not include Social Security numbers, immigration documents, bank account numbers, passwords, or other highly sensitive material in an initial message. To ask what information the firm holds about you, or to request its deletion, email info@usherlegal.com.

Notice date: September 15, 2026.