2024 North Dakota Minimum Wage
The 2024 North Dakota Minimum Wage is $7.25.
Effective 2024-01-01Source: Youth Employment in North Dakota (North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights)Verified 2026-09-03
Compared with 2023
Every figure on this page is unchanged from 2023.
| Item | 2023 | 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly | $7.25 | $7.25 | +$0 (+0.0%) |
Who it applies to
Employees working in North Dakota
What changed this year, and why
The minimum wage rate in North Dakota for 2024
Common questions
- What is the minimum wage in North Dakota for 2024?
- The minimum wage in North Dakota is $7.25 per hour.
- What hours must employers pay for?
- Employees are entitled to compensation for all hours worked, including preparation time, closing time, and any required meetings or training.
Overtime is paid at one and one-half times the regular rate
Under North Dakota administrative code, overtime pay must be paid at one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for hours worked over forty in any work week. A work week is defined as a seven consecutive-day period set by the employer, and overtime is computed on a weekly basis regardless of the length of the pay period. Only actual hours worked count toward the overtime calculation — paid holidays, paid time off, and sick leave do not have to be included when determining whether the weekly threshold has been exceeded. If an employee works more than one job under the same employer, all hours across those positions must be added together to determine whether overtime is owed. Private employers in North Dakota may not use compensatory time in place of overtime pay for non-exempt workers; hours over the weekly threshold cannot be banked and used as time off in a later work week. For an employee earning the $7.25 federal minimum wage, the overtime premium rate would be one and one-half times that regular rate for all hours beyond the weekly threshold.
• Overtime pay must be paid at one and one-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay for hours worked over forty in any work week. • A work week is a seven consecutive-day period defined by the employer.
North Dakota Minimum Wage and Work Conditions Summary Poster (North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights)
What an employer may deduct from your pay
Money an employee in North Dakota has already earned stays theirs unless the employer can point to one of a short list of reasons for holding part of it back. Withholding that state or federal law requires sits outside that list, as does money a court has directed the employer to hold. Everything else narrows to four permitted cases: repayment of money the employer advanced to the worker, so long as the advance was documented rather than handed over as loose cash; a repeating deduction the employee agreed to in writing; a one-off deduction the employee agreed to in writing where that writing names specifically what is being taken; and a one-off charge for damage, breakage, a cash shortage or carelessness, which the employee has to approve at the point it is taken. Two consequences follow on a North Dakota pay stub. A general permission signed at hiring does not cover a later charge for a broken item or a missing amount of cash, because consent for that kind of deduction has to be given when the deduction is made, not in advance. And a cost the employer simply decides to pass on, however real the loss, fits none of the permitted cases and so cannot come out of the check at all, whether or not what is left still works out to $7.25 per hour. A line on the stub that matches none of these descriptions is one North Dakota law did not let the employer take.
Except for those amounts that are required under state or federal law to be withheld from employee compensation or where a court has ordered the employer to withhold compensation, an employer only may withhold from the compensation due employees: 1. Advances paid to employees, other than undocumented cash. 2. A recurring deduction authorized in writing. 3. A nonrecurring deduction authorized in writing, when the source of the deduction is cited specifically. 4. A nonrecurring deduction for damage, breakage, shortage, or negligence must be authorized by the employee at the time of the deduction.
North Dakota Minimum Wage and Work Conditions Summary Poster (North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights)
How each figure was verified
Each number below was read from a stored copy of the document named beside it, and checked to occur word for word in the quoted sentence. The digest is of that stored text.
Youth Employment in North Dakota (North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights)
- Hourly
The minimum wage in North Dakota is $7.25 per hour.
Other years
Every North Dakota Minimum Wage year · Minimum Wage in every state