Overview
This topic provides the current and future minimum wage requirements for non-exempt employees, along with basic information about tip credits, for locations with a population of at least 100,000 people. Employees must be paid the highest applicable federal, state, or local minimum wage.
Certain exceptions and industry-specific minimum wage standards are not included in this topic.
Questions Answered
- What is the minimum wage?
- Are tip credits permitted?
Additional Information
Some locations below the 100,000 threshold are included in this topic, but due to the fact that many towns, cities, and counties do not report newly enacted ordinances immediately, we cannot guarantee that every law below this threshold is included.
This topic does not cover:
- Most industry-specific minimum wage standards (with the exception of those that are a part of the jurisdiction’s primary minimum wage scheme)
- Exceptions to minimum wage, including, but not limited to:
- Employees not covered by the FLSA
- Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement
- Special categories of employees that may be exempt from minimum wage requirements and therefore subject to a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage requirement whatsoever such as:
- Welfare to work/transitional employee programs, learners, subsidized youth programs
- Apprentice programs
- Most rules that allow a non-profit employer to pay less than the standard minimum wage
- Most laws other than tip credits providing the employer the opportunity to pay less than the minimum wage based on a credit or alternative payment. For example:
- Commissions/guaranteed gratuities
- Meal and lodging credits
- Fringe benefits (with the exception of health insurance credit laws provided for in a minimum wage statute/ordinance)
- Service charges
- Living wage ordinances