2022 North Dakota Tipped Minimum Wage
The 2022 North Dakota Tipped Minimum Wage is $4.86.
Effective 2022-01-01Source: North Dakota Minimum Wage and Work Conditions Summary Poster (North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights)Verified 2026-09-01
Compared with 2021
Every figure on this page is unchanged from 2021.
| Item | 2021 | 2022 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum cash wage | $4.86 | $4.86 | +$0 (+0.0%) |
Who it applies to
Employers of tipped employees in North Dakota
What changed this year, and why
North Dakota's minimum cash wage for tipped employees is $4.86 per hour in 2022.
Common questions
- What is the minimum cash wage an employer must pay a tipped employee in North Dakota in 2022?
- The minimum cash wage for tipped employees in North Dakota is $4.86 per hour. Employers may claim a tip credit against the minimum wage. Employers must verify through written records that each tipped employee's cash wage and tips together equal at least the full minimum wage for every hour worked.
- Who qualifies as a tipped employee in North Dakota?
- A tipped employee is defined under North Dakota law as a service employee who regularly receives more than a specified monthly amount in tips.
Your employer, your manager and your supervisor may not keep your tips
North Dakota Administrative Code requires that gratuities offered to an employee by a customer belong to the employee and may not be retained by the employer. This means all tips you receive belong to you, and your employer cannot take any portion of those tips for themselves, whether they are the business owner, a manager, or a supervisor. This protection applies regardless of whether your employer uses a tip pool or tip sharing arrangement. While tips can be pooled and shared among eligible employees in service positions, the employer and management are not allowed to keep any portion of the tips that customers give to you. This rule ensures that the money customers intend as compensation for your service goes directly to you and other frontline workers, not to those in management positions.
Gratuities offered to an employee by a customer belong to the employee and may not be retained by the employer.
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.
North Dakota Minimum Wage and Work Conditions Summary Poster (North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights)
- Minimum cash wage
With the tip credit applied, the minimum direct wage payable to a tipped employee is $4.86 per hour
Other years
Every North Dakota Tipped Minimum Wage year · Tipped Minimum Wage in every state