State Minimum Wages

State

Minimum Wage Rate per Hour

Scheduled Increases and/or Variances

Alabama

none

Alaska

$7.15

Arizona

$6.90

Arkansas

$6.55

Household employees

California

$8.00

San Francisco Ordinance $9.36. More info...

Colorado

$7.02

$7.02 effective 1/1/08

Connecticut

$7.65

$8.00 eff. Jan. 1, 2009; $8.25 1/1/2010

Delaware

$7.15

$7.25 07/24/2009

District of Columbia

$7.55

Federal Minimum + $1

Florida

$6.79

Annual increases indexed to inflation.

Georgia

$6.55

Hawaii

$7.25

$7.25 1-Jan-2007

Idaho

$6.55

Illinois

$7.75

$7.75 July 1, 2008

Indiana

$6.55

$6.55 7/24/08; $7.25 7/24/09

Iowa

$7.25

$7.25 1/1/08

Kansas

$6.55

Federal minimum applies to domestic service

Kentucky

$6.55

$6.55 July 1, 2008; $7.25 in July 2009.

Louisiana

none

Maine

$7.00

$7.25 10/1/2008, $7.50 10/1/2009

Maryland

$6.55

Live-in domestic employees must be paid the overtime differential (1.5 times hourly rate) for hours worked over 40 in a week.
$7.25 7/24/09

Massachusetts

$8.00

$8.00 Jan 2008

Michigan

$7.40

$7.40 7/1/2008

Minnesota

$6.55

Mississippi

none

Missouri

$6.65

Montana

$6.55

Nebraska

$6.55

Nevada

$6.85

Overtime based on hours over 8 in a day!

New Hampshire

$7.25

$7.25 effective 9/1/08.

New Jersey

$7.15

New Mexico

$6.55

$7.50 1/1/2009

New York

$7.15

$7.25 7/24/2009
Live-in domestic employees must be paid the overtime differential (1.5 times hourly rate) for hours worked over 44 in a week.

North Carolina

$6.55

North Dakota

$6.55

Ohio

$7.00

$7.00 effective 1/1/08

Oklahoma

$6.55

Oregon

$7.95

adjusted to an inflation index every Jan. 1.
$7.95 1/1/08

Pennsylvania

$7.15

10 or fewer workers: $7.15 7/1/08

Rhode Island

$7.40

$7.40 1/1/07

South Carolina

none

South Dakota

$6.55

Tennessee

none

Texas

$6.55

Utah

$6.55

Vermont

$7.68

Indexed annually

Virginia

$6.55

Washington

$8.07

Indexed annually Jan. 1

West Virginia

$7.25

Wisconsin

$6.55

Wyoming

$6.55