BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday called for striking attorneys to get back to work while they continue to push for better pay, and she did not take a stance on whether their pay should be raised.

“I’ve had conversations with the Legislature. I can tell you that the Legislature is actively working on this. They’re not there yet in terms of a resolution,” Healey told reporters Wednesday. “My hope is that we see a resolution very, very quickly, and in the meantime, I’d like to see lawyers back in court representing defendants.”

Hundreds of bar advocates — private attorneys who accept court appointments — stopped taking new court-appointed cases in late May to protest their pay rates, which they say are far lower than those in neighboring states. The private attorneys represent defendants across Massachusetts who would otherwise be unable to afford legal representation. They handle about 80% of the public defense caseload in the state.

Massachusetts pays bar advocates $65 per hour for representing a client in District Court and $85 for Superior Court, according to a press release circulated by bar advocate Mara Dolan, who is also an elected member of the Governor’s Council. Bar advocates say they are paid far less than their peers in other New England states — Maine pays $158 per hour, New Hampshire pays $125 to $150, New York pays $158 and Rhode Island pays $112 to $142.

A judge in Boston Municipal Court on Tuesday dismissed more than 100 cases due to the inability of the government to provide defendants with lawyers. The cases that were dropped involved crimes ranging from shoplifting to assault.

The judge dismissed cases by invoking the Lavallee Protocol, a 2004 Supreme Judicial Court decision requiring the state to release pretrial defendants who haven’t been assigned a lawyer within seven days of being detained, and to dismiss cases that have spent more than 45 days without an attorney. Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s spokesperson said Tuesday that “many more” dismissals are “expected in coming days and weeks.”

Neither legislative budget writers nor Healey have dictated a specific figure they think the attorneys should be paid. Asked Wednesday if she supports bar advocates’ pay being raised, Healey did not take a stance.

“I certainly support the notion that people should be paid fairly for the job that they do. You know, this is a challenging budget season right now. ... They didn’t raise it with me when I filed my [proposed] budget way back in January. They chose to go the route of work stoppage,” Healey said.

Healey said Wednesday that she’ll “leave it up to the Legislature” to determine the dollar figure attached to a resolution “in what is a challenging budget scenario.” She has previously said she thinks “money is part of it, absolutely, but the question is, how much more money and when?”

“So I would just strongly encourage people to get back to court and continue to represent and take cases in court while the Legislature works with them to resolve this,” the governor said.

Top legislative Democrats recently called the work stoppage a “$100 million issue,” as the state continues to assess the economic and federal funding outlooks in Massachusetts. The state has more than $8 billion in cash reserves.

Healey has repeatedly called the situation “a matter of public safety.”

“We’ve got defendants who are entitled to due process and representation,” Healey said. “We’ve got victims who need to make sure that their cases are addressed and heard, and we’ve got a system of justice that depends on that.”