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Effective January 1, 2021, the Alaska minimum wage is $10.34 per hour. It will be increased annually thereafter.
Tips or gratuities may not be credited toward the state minimum wage obligation.
Public school bus drivers will receive a wage of not less than two times the minimum wage rate.
Effective February 16, 2018, Alaska employers are no longer allowed to pay less than minimum wage to employees with disabilities.
The following individuals are exempt from Alaska's minimum wage provisions: employees of agricultural, forestry and lumbering operations, including deliverers and carriers to market, fishermen, domestics, including babysitters, federal employees, newspaper carriers, those employed in executive, administrative or professional positions, caretakers of properties not in use for four months or more, outside or commissioned sales people, and taxi drivers.
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Effective January 1, 2022, Arizona's minimum wage is $12.80 per hour. The rate for tipped employees is no less than $3.00 per hour below the minimum wage.
Beginning January 1, 2021, the rate will increase on January 1 of each year by the increase in the cost of living as measured by Consumer Price Index, with the amount of the minimum wage increase rounded to the nearest multiple of five cents.
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Effective January 1, 2021, the Arkansas minimum wage is $11.00 per hour ($2.63 for tipped employees).
The following individuals are exempt from Arkansas minimum wage provisions: those in executive, administrative or professional positions, federal employees, independent contractors, agricultural workers, those engaged in the range production of livestock, and forestry employees.
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Beginning January 1, 2017, the minimum wage for all industries will increase yearly until January 1, 2023. From January 1, 2017, to January 1, 2022, the minimum wage will increase for employers employing 26 or more employees. This increase will be delayed one year for employers employing 25 or fewer employees, from January 1, 2018, to January 1, 2023.
| Date | Employer with 25 employees or less | Employer with 26 employees or more |
| January 1, 2022 | $14.00 | $15.00 |
| January 1, 2023 | $15.00 |
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Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum hourly wage for Colorado is $12.32 per hour (tipped employee minimum wage is $9.30 per hour).
Beginning January 1, 2021, the rate will be increased annually as measured by the Consumer Price Index for the Boulder-Denver region. Effective January 1, 2020, employers that fail to properly pay wages and purposely neglect the state’s minimum wage laws may be dinged with wage theft violations that can rise to a felony level for amounts larger than $2,000. Wage violations are currently classified as misdemeanors. To prepare for this change, employers should review their pay practices to ensure they are compliant.
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On May 28, 2019, the governor signed a bill into law that will raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by June 1, 2023. Effective August 1, 2021, the minimum wage is $13 per hour. The tipped-employee minimum wage is $6.38 per hour(hotels/restaurants) and $8.23 per hour (bartenders).
The rates for learners, beginners, and persons under the age of 18 years may not be less that 85 percent of the minimum wage for the first 200 hours of employment and equal to the minimum wage thereafter, except certain specified institutional training programs.
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Effective January 1, 2022, the minimum wage is $10.50 per hour.
In Delaware the following are exempt from minimum wage provisions: executives, administrators, professionals, agricultural employees, domestic workers, outside commissioned salespeople, and seamen and United States employees.
Yes
Effective July 1, 2021, the minimum wage for the District of Columbia is $15.20 per hour.
The minimum wage will thereafter increase annually based on the Consumer Price Index, or will be $1 higher than the federal rate, whichever is greater. The District of Columbia minimum wage provisions do not apply to executives, administrators, professionals, outside salespeople, or newspaper delivery people. Additionally, overtime provisions do not apply to seamen, railroad employees, vehicle salespeople, mechanics, most carwash people, and parking lot attendants.
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Effective September 30, 2021, the Florida minimum wage is $10 per hour. The state’s minimum wage for tipped employees is $6.98 per hour.
Each employer who pays employees the Florida minimum wage must prominently display a minimum wage poster in a conspicuous and accessible place in each establishment where employees are employed. The poster must be at least 8.5 inches by 11 inches and in a format easily seen by employees.
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The Georgia minimum wage is $5.15 per hour.
Minimum wage provisions do not apply for employees whose compensations consists of gratuities, high school or college students, newspaper carriers, childcare workers.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2018, the minimum wage is $10.10 per hour. In Hawaii, the following are exempt from minimum wage provisions: agricultural workers, domestics, administrators, executives, supervisors, professionals, fisherman, seamen, taxi drivers, golf caddies, and auto salesmen.
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As of July 1, 2007, the Idaho minimum wage will conform to, and track with, the federal minimum wage.
The following are exempt from the Idaho minimum wage law: executives, administrative people, professionals, domestics, outside salespeople, family members of agricultural endeavors, harvest laborers, and people involved in the range production of livestock.
Yes
The minimum wage for Illinois is $12 per hour effective January 1, 2022.
In February 2019, the governor signed a bill to steadily increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by January 1, 2025. Employers with 50 or fewer employees will be able to claim a 25 percent tax credit for several years as they adjust to the higher wage requirements. The law also includes certain increases for employees under the age of 18, as well as stiffer penalties for employers who violate wage and hour laws.
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The minimum wage for Indiana employees is $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009.
In Indiana, those employees who provide companionship services to the aged and infirm or are employed by an agency that use companionship services are exempt from the minimum wage provision.
Yes
The minimum wage for Iowa is $7.25 per hour as of January 1, 2008.
This minimum wage does not apply to employees who have not yet completed 90 days of employment with an employer. These employees will need to be paid $6.35 per hour as of January 1, 2008.
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The minimum wage for Kentucky as of July 1, 2009, is $7.25 per hour.
In Kentucky, certain types of employees are exempted from minimum wage provisions. These include: agricultural workers, persons working in administrative, supervisory or professional capacity, domestics, and newspaper delivery people. The following are exempt from overtime compensation: retail employees, restaurant, motel and hotel employees and some childcare providers.
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Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum wage for Maine is $12.15 per hour ($6.08 for tipped employees).
Beginning January 1, 2021, the minimum wage will thereafter increase annually based on the Consumer Price Index.
If the highest federal minimum wage is increased in excess of the minimum wage in effect, the minimum wage is increased to the same amount, effective on the same date as the increase in the federal minimum wage, and will then increase in accordance to the scheduled outlined above.
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Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum wage for Maryland employees is $11.75 per hour.
Some Maryland employees are exempt from minimum wage provisions. They are: agricultural employees, executives, administrative and professional employees, educational and non-profit employees, restaurant employees, movie theatre employees, outside salespeople, commissioned employees, and canning and packing employees.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2021, the state minimum wage is $13.50 per hour ($5.55 for tipped employees).
Yes
Effective January 1, 2022, the state minimum wage is $10.10 per hour ($3.84 for tipped employees). For tipped employees, the minimum hourly wage rate is 38 percent of the minimum hourly wage rate that is established.
New employees who are less than 20 years of age can be paid a training wage of $4.25 per hour for the first 90 days of employment. The minimum wage for employees under 18 years of age is 85 percent of the general minimum wage.
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The minimum wage for Minnesota employees depends on whether the company is a “large employer” or a “small employer” (as defined below):
- Effective January 1, 2021: $10.08 per hour for large employers (covered by the FLSA).
- Effective January 1, 2021: $8.21 per hour for small employers (not covered by the FLSA).
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Effective January 1, 2022, the state minimum wage is $11.15 per hour ($5.58 for tipped employees). The minimum wage is adjusted effective January 1 each year.
In Missouri, the following individuals are exempt from the minimum wage provisions: agricultural workers, those employed in executive, administrative or professional positions, domestics, those employed on a casual or intermittent basis such as golf caddy or newsboy and those who work on commission.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2021, the state minimum wage is $8.75 per hour.
The following individuals are exempt from Montana minimum wage provisions: agricultural workers, domestics, persons employed in an executive, administrative or professional position, and foster parents.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2016, the minimum wage for Nebraska employees is $9.00 per hour.
Nebraska exempts the following individuals from minimum wage provisions: agricultural workers, babysitters in private homes, and individuals who are employed in an executive, administrative, executive, superintendent or supervisor positions.
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Nevada has a two-tiered minimum wage. Effective July 1, 2020, the first tier for employers that provide qualified health insurance benefits will increase to $8 per hour. The second tier will increase to $9 per hour for employers that do not provide qualified health insurance benefits. These rates will increase annually until they reach $11 per hour (with health insurance) and $12 per hour (without health insurance).
These rates may be adjusted annually on July 1 to include increases in the federal minimum wage and a yearly cost of living adjustment.
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Effective September 1, 2008, the minimum wage increased to $7.25 per hour.
The following individuals are exempt from New Hampshire minimum wage provisions: domestics, farm laborers, outside sales people, newsboys, nonprofessional ski patrol persons, and golf caddies.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2022, the New Jersey minimum wage is $13 per hour.
Salary minimums do not apply to outside sales employees, teachers, and employees practicing law or medicine.
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| Date | Minimum Wage | Tipped Minimum Wage |
| January 1, 2021 | $10.50 | $2.55 |
| January 1, 2022 | $11.50 | $2.80 |
| January 1, 2023 | $12.00 | $3.00 |
In New Mexico, certain individuals are exempt from the New Mexico minimum wage provisions: domestics, those in executive, administrative or professional positions, including foremen, supervisors and superintendents, salesmen, commissioned workers, piece-workers, those employed by ambulance services, G.I. bill trainees in training, and agricultural workers.
Yes
Effective December 31, 2020, the New York minimum wage is $12.50 per hour (tipped employees $7.85 per hour).
In New York the following individuals are exempt from the minimum wage provisions: farm laborers, people in executive, administrative or professional positions, outside sales people, taxi drivers, and members of the clergy.
Yes
Effective July 24, 2009, the minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
The following individuals are exempt from the North Carolina minimum wage provisions: pages in the state assembly, prisoners and confined mental patients, models, actors, performers and production workers in outdoor theatre, employees of fishing operations, rideshare drivers, and computer system analysts, programmers and software engineers.
Yes
Effective July 24, 2009, the North Dakota minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
In North Dakota the following individuals are exempt from the minimum wage provisions: guides and cooks for hunting or guide services, golf caddies, prison or jail inmates who work for the jail/prison, actors and extras, and employees of educational non-profit youth camps.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2021, the Ohio minimum wage is $8.80 per hour.
The following individuals are exempt from Ohio's minimum wage provisions: federal workers, in-home babysitters, newspaper carriers, outside commissioned sales people, individuals in an executive, administrative or professional position, agricultural workers, employees of police and fire agencies, employees of the state legislature.
Yes
The minimum wage for Oklahoma is $7.25 per hour. Oklahoma adopts the federal minimum wage rate by reference.
The following individuals are exempt from the Oklahoma minimum wage provisions: agricultural workers, domestics, federal employees, newspaper vendors or carriers, those who are in executive, administrative or professional positions, feedstore workers, employees of carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and reserve force deputy sheriffs.
Yes
| Date | Standard | Portland Metro | Nonurban Counties |
| July 1, 2021 | $12.75 | $12.00 | |
| July 1, 2022 | $13.50 | $12.50 | |
| July 1, 2023 | $Adjusted annually based on the increase, if any, to the US City average Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers | $1.25 over the standard minimum wage | $1 less than the standard minimum wage |
Yes
Effective January 1, 2021, the Pennsylvania minimum wage will increase to $8.50.
Pennsylvania exempts the following individuals from minimum wage provisions: farm workers, domestics, newspaper carriers, those in executive, administrative or professional positions (including teachers and administrators in elementary and secondary schools), golf caddies, some switchboard operators, those holding an elective office.
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Effective January 1, 2022, the state minimum wage is $12.25 per hour.
Some Rhode Island individuals are exempt from the minimum wage provisions: domestics, federal workers, newspaper carriers, golf caddies, shoe shiners, theatre ushers, and outside sales people.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2021, the state minimum wage is $9.45 per hour (tipped employees minimum wage is $4.73 per hour). It will increase annually effective each January 1. Babysitters and outside sales people are exempt from South Dakota's minimum wage provisions.
Yes
The minimum wage for Texas is $7.25 per hour, and follows the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The following individuals are exempt from the Texas minimum wage provisions: employees of a religious, charitable, education or non-profit organization, those in executive, administrative or professional positions, outside commissioned sales people, elected officials, domestics, agricultural workers, and prison inmates.
Yes
The minimum wage for Utah employees is $7.25 an hour effective July 24, 2009.
The following individuals are exempt from the Utah minimum wage provisions: outside sales people, domestic workers, federal employees, prisoners, agricultural workers, and certain employees of seasonal amusement establishments.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2021, the state minimum wage is $11.75 per hour. Minimum wage for tipped employees is $5.88 per hour.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2022, the Virginia minimum wage is $11 per hour.
In Virginia, certain individuals are exempt from the minimum wage provisions: farm laborer, domestics, newsboys, shoe shiners, golf caddies, ushers, doormen, concession attendants, theatre cashiers, prisoners, those 65 or older, and children's summer camp employees.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2021, the Washington minimum wage is $13.69 per hour.
The minimum wage will thereafter increase annually on January 1 based on the Consumer Price Index.
However, 14- and 15-year-olds may be paid 85 percent of the adult minimum wage (or $11.48 in 2020).
The following individuals are exempt from minimum wage provisions: hand harvest laborer, domestics, those in executive, administrative, or professional positions, outside sales people, newspaper vendors and carriers, carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, prisoners, elected or appointed officials, crews of state ferries, seamen on other than American vessels.
Yes
Effective January 1, 2016, minimum wage is $8.75 per hour.
The following individuals are exempt from minimum wage provisions: federal employees, newsboys, shoeshine boys, golf caddies, pin boys at bowling alleys, outside sales people, those in executive, administrative or professional positions, firefighters, theatre ushers, and employees of local or interurban bus carriers.
Yes
Effective July 24, 2009, the minimum wage for Wisconsin employees will be as follows:
- Adult (Non-agriculture): $7.25
- Minor (Non-agriculture): $7.25
- Opportunity Employee: $5.90
- Tipped Opportunity Employee: $2.13
- Adult (Agriculture): $7.25
- Minor (Agriculture): $7.25
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Minimum wage is $5.15 per hour.
The following individuals are exempt from the Wyoming minimum wage provisions: agricultural workers, domestics, those in executive, administrative or professional positions, federal employees, commissioned outside sales people, and ambulance drivers.