This page includes resources related to minimum wages in each state. You can use our Paycheck Calculator to discover what’s your annual, weekly, or monthly salary if you’re earning your state’s minimum wage. Of course, you can also calculate your paycheck if your wage is above the minimum wage.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. In all states, employers are required to pay their workers at least this minimum pay, even if they have no minimum wage laws. There are five states that don’t have any minimum hourly pay or overtime laws, and then the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations apply.
The federal minimum hourly wage of $7.25 translates to $58 a day, $290 a week (at 40 work hours a week), $1256.67 a month, and $15,080 a year.
Not all employees will receive their state’s minimum wage. There are employee categories, like tipped workers, nonprofit workers, and some students that are exempt from their state’s minimum wage and/or overtime regulations.
Overview of State Minimum Hourly Wages 2022
- Minimum Wage in Alabama – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Alaska – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Arizona – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Arkansas – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in California – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Colorado – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Connecticut – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Delaware – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Florida – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Georgia – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Hawaii – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Idaho – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Illinois – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Indiana – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Iowa – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Kansas – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Kentucky – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Louisiana – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Maine – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Maryland – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Massachusetts – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Michigan – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Minnesota – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Mississippi – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Missouri – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Montana – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Nebraska – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Nevada – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in New Hampshire – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in New Jersey – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in New Mexico – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in New York State – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in North Carolina – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in North Dakota – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Ohio – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Oklahoma – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Oregon – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Pennsylvania – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Rhode Island – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in South Carolina – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in South Dakota – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Tennessee – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Texas – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Utah – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Vermont – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Virginia – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Washington DC – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Washington State – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in West Virginia – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Wisconsin – weekly, monthly, annually
- Minimum Wage in Wyoming – weekly, monthly, annually