"A full-time worker needs to earn an hourly wage of $24.90 on average to afford a modest, two-bedroom rental home in the U.S"

"The hourly wage that a household must earn (working forty hours a week, fifty-two weeks a year) in order to afford the Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom rental unit, without paying more than thirty percent of their income. "

The National Low Income Housing Coalition report for 2021 has the numbers by state for the US. The MA high level numbers are shown here. Additional pieces of the report get into greater detail.  https://reports.nlihc.org/oor/about

MA is among the leaders in least affordable housing