North Carolina Tips needed per hour, 2025

This works out one number from the North Carolina Tipped Minimum Wage figures published for 2025. Every amount it uses is below, with the document it was read from. What you enter is your own: this site has no way to check it, and the answer it produces is not a published figure.

Minimum cash wagetipped employees$2.13

Effective 2025-01-01Source: Minimum Wage in N.C. (North Carolina Department of Labor)Verified 2026-09-01

How it is worked out

The amount you enter, less the published amount, rounded to the nearest cent. Where the published amount is the larger of the two, the answer is nothing rather than a negative amount.

It uses Minimum cash wage, $2.13, published above.

Figures in this colour are computed from the amounts above. They are not published figures and no document states them.

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Worked out for common amounts

The minimum wage that applies where you workResult
7.25$5.12
10$7.87
15$12.87
17$14.87
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.

Minimum Wage in N.C. (North Carolina Department of Labor)

Minimum cash wage
In North Carolina, an employer MUST pay at least $2.13 an hour to tipped employees as long as each employee receives enough in tips to make up the difference between the wages paid and the minimum wage ($7.25).
  • Fetched 2026-08-30T11:01:52.601Z
  • Verified 2026-09-01
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