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651 Boas Street, Room 1301
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
TOM CORBETT | GOVERNOR
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY
JULIA K. HEARTHWAY | SECRETARY
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Overtime Rate:
Workers shall be paid 1½ times their regular rate
of pay after 40 hours worked in a workweek
(Except as Described).
Tipped Employees:
An employer may pay a minimum of $2.83
per hour to an employee who makes $30.00
per month in tips. The employer must make
up the difference if the tips and $2.83 do not
meet the regular Pennsylvania minimum
wage.
Keeping Records:
Every employer must maintain accurate
records of each employee’s earnings and
hours worked, and provide access to Labor
& Industry.
Penalties:
Failure to pay the legal minimum wage
or other violations may result in payment
of back wages and other civil or criminal
action where warranted.
Exemptions:
Overtime applies to certain employment
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Special Allowances For:
Students, learners and people with disabilities,
upon application only.
The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act
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Overtime Rate for employees. It also sets forth
compliance-related duties for the Department
of Labor & Industry and for employers. In
addition, the Minimum Wage Act provides
penalties for noncompliance. This summary
is for general information only and is not
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Department of Labor & Industry.
BUREAU OF LABOR LAW COMPLIANCE
Minimum Wage Law Summary
Must be Posted in a Conspicuous Place in Every Pennsylvania Business
Governed by the Minimum Wage Act
Minimum Wage
Rate:
$7.25 per hour
Effective
July 24, 2009
(Except as Described)
Exceptions from Minimum Wage Rates
Exemptions from Overtime Rates
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school or college), after obtaining a
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Labor Law Compliance, (651 Boas Street,
Room 1301, Harrisburg, PA 17121-0750)
may be paid 85% of the minimum wage as
follows:
Learners: 40 hours a week. Maximum
eight weeks
Students: Up to 20 hours a week. Up to
40 hours a week during school vacation
periods
 Individuals with a physical or mental
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than the applicable minimum wage if a
license specifying a rate commensurate
with productive capacity is obtained from
the Bureau of Labor Law Compliance,
(651 Boas Street, Room 1301, Harrisburg,
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is obtained under Section 14(c) of the
Fair Labor Standards Act from the U.S.
Department of Labor.
 A seaman
 Any salesman, partsman or mechanic
primarily engaged in selling and servicing
automobiles, trailers, trucks, farm
implements or aircraft, if employed by a
non-manufacturing establishment primarily
engaged in the selling of such vehicles to
ultimate purchasers. (Example: 51% of
business is selling as opposed to 49% in
servicing such vehicles)
 Taxicab driver
 Any employee of a motor carrier the
Federal Secretary of Transportation
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and maximum hours of service under
49 U.S.C. Section 3102 (b)(1) and (2)
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standards)
 Announcer, news editor, chief engineer
of a radio or television station, the major
studio of which is located in:
 City or town of 100,000
population or less, if it is not
part of a standard metropolitan
statistical area having a total
population in excess of 100,000;
or
 City or town of 25,000 population
or less, which is part of such an
area but is at least 40 airline miles
from the principal city in the area
 Any employee engaged in the processing
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sugar) or syrup
 Employment by a motion picture theatre
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Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Rates
Allowances
 Labor on a farm
 Domestic service in or about the private
home of the employer
 Delivery of newspapers to the consumer
 Publication of weekly, semi-weekly or
daily newspaper with a circulation of
less than 4,000 when the major portion
of circulation is in the county where
published or a bordering county
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professional capacity, (including academic
administrative personnel or teacher in
public schools) or in capacity of outside
salesman. However, an employee of a
retail or service establishment shall not be
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administrative capacity because of the
number of hours in the employee’s work
not directly or closely related to the
performance of executive, professional or
administrative activities, if less than 40%
of the employee’s hours worked in the
workweek are devoted to such activities.
 Educational, charitable, religious, or
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employee relationship exists and service is
rendered gratuitously
 Golf caddy
 In seasonal employment, if the employee
is under 18 years of age or if a student
under 24 years of age is employed by a
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in activities dealing with handicapped or
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or resident seasonal recreational camp for
campers under the age of 18 years, which
operates for a period of less than three
months in any one year
 In employment by a public amusement
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conference center, if (i) it does not operate
more than seven months a year or (ii)
during the preceding calendar year, the
average receipts for any 6 months were not
more than 33ᅑ% of its average receipts for
the other 6 months of such year
 Switchboard operator employed by an
independently-owned public telephone
company which has no more than 750
stations
 Employees not subject to civil service
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on a policy making level
Wages paid to any employee may include reasonable cost of board, lodging and other facilities.
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condition and accepts it as a usual condition of employment at the time of hire or change of
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Board: Food furnished in the form of meals on an established schedule.
Lodging: Housing facility available for the personal use of the employee at all hours.
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the employer.
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