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State Minimum Wage Laws
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Updated July 1, 2026
Table of minimum wage by state
Historical Table
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): $14.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Daily - 8, Weekly - 40
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.
American Samoa
American Samoa has special minimum wage rates.
Arizona
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.15
Arkansas
Applicable to employers with 4 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $11.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
California
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $16.90
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.
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Daily - 8 (time and half), and 12 (double time), Weekly - 40; on 7th day: First 8 hours (time and half) Over 8 hours on 7th day (double time)
Colorado
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.16
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Daily - 12, Weekly - 40
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): $16.94
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
In restaurants and hotel restaurants, for the 7th consecutive day of work, premium pay is required at time and one half the minimum rate.
Delaware
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.00
The State adopts the federal minimum wage rate by reference if the federal rate is greater than the State rate.
District of Columbia
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $18.40
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
The minimum wage is adjusted annually on July 1 based on a set formula.
Florida
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $14.00
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.
Guam
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $9.25
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
Hawaii
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $16.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
An employee earning a guaranteed monthly compensation of $4,000 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): $15.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
Indiana
Applicable to employers of 2 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40, 7th day
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): $15.10
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
Massachusetts
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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): $13.73
The Michigan minimum wage is scheduled to increase on January 1, 2027 to $15.00 per hour and then will be adjusted annually based on a set formula.
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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.
Minnesota
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $11.41
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 48
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.
Missouri
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
2
: Weekly - 40
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 amusement or recreation businesses.
Montana
Businesses with gross annual sales of more than $110,000
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.85
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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.
Nebraska
Applicable to employers of 4 or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.00
Nevada
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours: Employees earning less than 1.5 times the state minimum wage are entitled to premium pay for hours worked in excess of 8 in a single day or 40 in a single week. Employees earning at least 1.5 times the state minimum wage are entitled to premium pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a single week.
New Hampshire
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
The New Hampshire minimum wage equals the federal minimum wage when set below the federal rate.
New Jersey
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $15.92
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
The minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
There is a minimum wage of $15.23 per hour for employers who employ fewer than 6 people and employees engaged in seasonal employment.
New Mexico
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
New York
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $17.00 (New York City, Nassau County, Suffolk County, & Westchester County); $16.00 (remainder of the state)
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
The New York minimum wage equals the federal minimum wage when set below the federal rate.
Residential workers ("live-in workers") receive premium pay for hours worked over 44 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.
North Carolina
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
Premium pay is required after 45 hours a week in seasonal amusements or recreational establishments.
North Dakota
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
Northern Mariana Islands
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Ohio
Employers with annual gross receipts of $405,000 or more
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $11.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
Employers with annual gross receipts under $405,000
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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): $15.55 (standard state rate); $16.80 (Portland Metro Area); $14.55 (Non-Urban counties)
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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): $10.50
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.
Rhode Island
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $16.00
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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): $11.85
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 State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Vermont
Applicable to employers of two or more employees
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $14.42
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
The Vermont minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula. The State minimum wage is automatically replaced with the federal minimum wage rate if it is higher than the State minimum.
Virgin Islands
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $10.50
Premium Pay After Designated Hours 1 : Daily 8; Weekly – 40; Any hours worked on the 6th or 7th consecutive day of work.
Virginia
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $12.77
The Virginia minimum wage is adjusted annually based on a set formula.
Washington
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $17.13
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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.
West Virginia
Applicable to employers of 6 or more employees at one location
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $8.75
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
Wisconsin
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $7.25
Premium Pay After Designated Hours
1
: Weekly - 40
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.
Some states set subminimum rates for minors and/or students or exempt them from coverage or have a training wage for new hires. Some local governments set minimum wage rates higher than their respective state minimum
wage. Such differential provisions are not displayed in this table.
The Wage and Hour Division tries to ensure that the information on this page is accurate, but individuals should consult the relevant state labor office for official information.
Footnote
1 The overtime premium rate is one and one-half times the employee's regular rate, unless otherwise specified.
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