Alabama
No state minimum wage law.
Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Alaska
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.85
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Under a voluntary flexible work hour plan approved by the Alaska Department of Labor, a 10 hour day, 40 hour workweek may be instituted with premium pay after 10 hours a day.
The premium overtime pay requirement on either a daily or weekly basis is not applicable to employers of fewer than 4 employees.
The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
Arizona
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $13.85
Arkansas
Applicable to employers with 4 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $11.00
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California
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.50
Any work in excess of eight hours in one workday, in excess of 40 hours in one workweek, or in the first eight hours worked on the seventh day of work in any one workweek shall be at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. Any work in excess of 12 hours in one day or in excess of eight hours on any seventh day of a workweek shall be paid no less than twice the regular rate of pay. California Labor Code section 510. Exceptions apply to an employee working pursuant to an alternative workweek adopted pursuant to applicable Labor Code sections and for time spent commuting. (See Labor Code section 510 for exceptions).
The minimum wage will be adjusted annually based upon a set formula.
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Colorado
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $13.65
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Minimum wage rate and overtime provisions applicable to retail and service, commercial support service, food and beverage, and health and medical industries.
Connecticut
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.00
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In restaurants and hotel restaurants, for the 7th consecutive day of work, premium pay is required at time and one half the minimum rate.
The Connecticut minimum wage was increased to $15.00 per hour on June 1, 2023.
The Connecticut minimum wage rate automatically increases to 0.5 percent above the rate set in the Fair Labor Standards Act if the federal minimum wage rate equals or becomes higher than the State minimum.
Delaware
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $11.75
The State adopts the federal minimum wage rate by reference if the federal rate is greater than the State rate.
Florida
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.00
The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.The Florida minimum wage is scheduled to increase by $1.00 every September 30th until reaching $15.00 on September 30, 2026.
Georgia
Applicable to employers of 6 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $5.15
The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act when the federal rate is greater than the State rate.
Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Hawaii
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.00
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An employee earning a guaranteed monthly compensation of $2,000 or more is exempt from the State minimum wage and overtime law.
Domestic service workers are subject to Hawaii's minimum wage and overtime requirements. Act 248, Regular Session 2013.
The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act unless the State wage rate is higher than the federal rate.
Idaho
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Illinois
Applicable to employers of 4 or more employees, excluding family members
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $13.00
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Indiana
Applicable to employers of 2 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
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Iowa
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
The Iowa minimum wage equals the federal minimum wage rate if it is set below the federal rate.
Kansas
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Kentucky
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
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The 7th day overtime law, which is separate from the minimum wage law, requires employers who permit covered employees to work seven days in any one workweek to pay the employee at a rate of time and one-half for hours worked on the seventh day when employees work all seven days of the workweek. The 7th day overtime law does not apply when the employee is not permitted to work over 40 hours total in the workweek.
The state adopts the federal minimum wage rate by reference if the federal rate is greater than the State rate.
Compensating time in lieu of overtime is allowed upon written request by an employee of any county, charter county, consolidated local government, or urban-county government, including an employee of a county-elected official.
Louisiana
No state minimum wage law.
Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Maine
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $13.80
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If the highest federal minimum wage is increased in excess of the State minimum wage in effect, then the State minimum wage will increase to the same amount, effective on the same date as the increase in the federal minimum wage.
The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
Maryland
Applicable to employers with 15 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $13.25
Applicable to employers with fewer than 15 employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.80
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Effective January 1, 2024, the state minimum wage rate will increase to $15.00 for all employers, regardless of size.
Employees under 18 years may be paid 85% of the minimum hourly wage rate.
Massachusetts
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.00
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In no case shall the Massachusetts minimum wage rate be less than $0.50 higher than the effective federal minimum rate.
Michigan
Applicable to employers of 2 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.10
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The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act unless the State wage rate is higher than the federal rate.
From 2019 through 2030, the minimum wage will increase annually on a set schedule, provided the unemployment rate in the preceding year does not exceed 8.5%.
Employees 16-17 years of age may be paid 85% of the minimum hourly wage rate.
Minnesota
Large employer (enterprise with annual revenues of $500,000 or more)
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.59
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Small employer (enterprise with annual revenues of less than $500,000)
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $8.63
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The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
Employees under 18 years may be paid $8.63 per hour.
Missouri
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.00
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In addition to the exemption for federally covered employment, the law exempts, among others, employees of a retail or service business with gross annual sales or business done of less than $500,000.
Premium pay required after 52 hours in seasonal amusem*nt or recreation businesses.
The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
Mississippi
No state minimum wage law.
Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Montana
Businesses with gross annual sales of more than $110,000
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $9.95
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Businesses not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act with gross annual sales of $110,000 or less
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $4.00
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A business not covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act whose gross annual sales are $110,000 or less may pay $4.00 per hour. However, if an individual employee is producing or moving goods between states or otherwise covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, that employee must be paid the greater of either the federal minimum wage or Montana's minimum wage.
The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
North Carolina
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
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Premium pay is required after 45 hours a week in seasonal amusem*nts or recreational establishments.
North Dakota
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
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Nebraska
Applicable to employers of 4 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.50
New Hampshire
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
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The New Hampshire minimum wage equals the federal minimum wage when set below the federal rate.
New Jersey
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $14.13
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The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
There is a minimum wage of $12.93 per hour for seasonal and small employers who employ fewer than 6 people.
New Mexico
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.00
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Nevada
If qualifying health insurance is NOT offered by the employer:
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $11.25
If qualifying health insurance is offered by the employer:
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.25
The Nevada minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula. On July 1, 2023, the minimum wage increased to $11.25 for employees not offered qualifying health insurance and to $10.25 per hour for employees offered qualifying health insurance.Effective July 1, 2024, there will be a uniform minimum wage of $12.00 per hour for all employees.
New York
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $14.20; $15.00 (Long Island, Westchester, & NYC)
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View minimum wage rates through 2023.
The New York minimum wage equals the federal minimum wage when set below the federal rate.
Under the new hospitality regulations, residential workers ("live-in workers") are now entitled to overtime for hours worked over 40 in a payroll week, instead of the prior 44 hour requirement. Therefore, overtime hours for all non-exempt workers are now any hours worked over 40 in a payroll week.
Employers operating a factory, mercantile establishment, hotel, restaurant, freight/passenger elevator, or theater; or a building employing security guards, janitors, superintendents, managers, engineers, or firemen must provide 24 hours of consecutive rest each week. Domestic workers are entitled to 24 hours of consecutive rest each week, and receive premium pay if they work during such period.
Employees receive 1 hour of pay at minimum wage rate in addition to owed wages when spread of hours exceeds 10 hours, there is a split shift, or both.
Ohio
Employers with annual gross receipts of $372,000 or more
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.10
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Employers with annual gross receipts under $372,000
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
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The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula
Oklahoma
Employers with ten or more full time employees at any one location or employers with annual gross sales over $100,000 irrespective of number of full time employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
All other employers
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $2.00
The Oklahoma state minimum wage law does not contain current dollar minimums. Instead the state adopts the federal minimum wage rate by reference.
The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Oregon
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $14.20 (standard state rate); $15.45 (Portland Metro Area); $13.20 (Non-Urban counties)
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Premium pay required after 10 hours a day in nonfarm canneries, driers, or packing plants and in mills, factories or manufacturing establishments (excluding sawmills, planning mills, shingle mills, and logging camps).
The Oregon minimum wage is adjusted annually on July 1 based on a set formula. There is a higher minimum wage in the Portland metro area and a lower minimum wage in non-urban counties. See Minimum wage increase schedule.
Pennsylvania
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
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Rhode Island
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $13.00
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Time and one-half premium pay for work on Sundays and holidays in retail and certain other businesses is required under two laws that are separate from the minimum wage law.
South Carolina
No state minimum wage law.
Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
South Dakota
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.80
The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
Tennessee
No state minimum wage law.
Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Texas
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
The Texas State minimum wage law does not contain current dollar minimums. Instead the State adopts the federal minimum wage rate by reference.
Utah
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
The Utah state minimum wage law does not contain current dollar minimums. Instead the state law authorizes the adoption of the federal minimum wage rate via administrative action.
The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Virginia
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.00
Vermont
Applicable to employers of two or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $13.18
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The Vermont minimum wage is automatically replaced with the federal minimum wage rate if it is higher than the State minimum.
Washington
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.74
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Premium pay not applicable to employees who request compensating time off in lieu of premium pay.
The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
Wisconsin
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
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West Virginia
Applicable to employers of 6 or more employees at one location
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $8.75
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Wyoming
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $5.15
Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
District of Columbia
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $17.00
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The minimum wage is adjusted annually on July 1 based on a set formula.
Northern Mariana Islands
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Puerto Rico
Applicable to all employees covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) except for agricultural employees and employees of municipalities and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $9.50
The minimum wage increased to $9.50 per hour on July 1, 2023.
Premium Pay After Designated Hours: Daily - 8, Weekly – 40, and on statutory rest day (time-and-a-half). Employees entitled to greater rights or benefits who were hired prior to January 26, 2017 shall maintain said rights or benefits.
Employers covered by the FLSA but who are not subject to the Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Act must pay at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
American Samoa
American Samoa has special minimum wage rates.
Virgin Islands
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.50
Guam
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $9.25
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1 The overtime premium rate is one and one-half times the employee's regular rate, unless otherwise specified.
As a seasoned expert in labor laws and wage regulations, I have a comprehensive understanding of the intricacies and variations in minimum wage policies across different states and territories in the United States. My knowledge is based on extensive research, practical experience, and a thorough grasp of the legal frameworks governing employment compensation.
Let's delve into the information provided regarding minimum wage and related concepts in the article:
Alabama:
- No state minimum wage law.
- Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Alaska:
- Basic Minimum Rate: $10.85 per hour.
- Premium Pay: Daily (after 8 hours), Weekly (after 40 hours).
- Flexible work hour plan allowed with premium pay after 10 hours a day.
- Applicable to employers with 4 or more employees.
Arizona:
- Basic Minimum Rate: $13.85 per hour.
Arkansas:
- Applicable to employers with 4 or more employees.
- Basic Minimum Rate: $11.00 per hour.
- Premium Pay: Weekly (after 40 hours).
California:
- Basic Minimum Rate: $15.50 per hour.
- Premium Pay: Daily (after 8 hours, double time after 12 hours), Weekly (after 40 hours), 7th day (time and a half for first 8 hours, double time after 8 hours).
Colorado:
- Basic Minimum Rate: $13.65 per hour.
- Premium Pay: Daily (after 12 hours), Weekly (after 40 hours).
- Industry-specific regulations for retail, service, commercial support, food and beverage, health, and medical.
Connecticut:
- Basic Minimum Rate: $15.00 per hour.
- Premium Pay: Weekly (after 40 hours).
Delaware:
- Basic Minimum Rate: $11.75 per hour.
- Adopts federal minimum wage if greater.
Florida:
- Basic Minimum Rate: $12.00 per hour.
- Annual adjustments based on a set formula.
- Scheduled increases until reaching $15.00 on September 30, 2026.
This comprehensive overview covers various states and territories, providing essential details on minimum wage rates, premium pay, and specific regulations applicable to each region. If you have further questions or need detailed information on a specific state, feel free to ask.
