The minimum wage is 11 USD per hour for employers with 4 or more employees. tipped employees: 2.63 USD per hour. full-time students: 85% of the general rate. learners and apprentices: 85% of the general rate. student learners: 85% of the general rate. bona fide executive, administrative, or professional employees and outside commission-paid salespersons: excluded from the minimum wage. students performing services for their school: excluded from the minimum wage. federal government employees: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of small agricultural employers: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofit camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. casual babysitters and companions: excluded from the minimum wage. newspaper delivery employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers of educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. bona fide independent contractors: excluded from the minimum wage. immediate family of agricultural employers: excluded from the minimum wage. piece-rate hand-harvest laborers who commute daily: excluded from the minimum wage. migrant hand-harvest laborers aged 16 or under: excluded from the minimum wage. range production of livestock: excluded from the minimum wage. small forestry and lumbering operations: excluded from the minimum wage. houseparents of nonprofit child welfare agencies: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of small-circulation newspapers: excluded from the minimum wage. home workers making evergreen wreaths: excluded from the minimum wage. organized camps and religious or nonprofit educational conference centers: excluded from the minimum wage. direct sellers: excluded from the minimum wage. minor league baseball players: excluded from the minimum wage.
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The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for Covered, nonexempt workers. tipped employees: 2.13 USD per hour. employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage): 4.25 USD per hour. Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations: excluded from the minimum wage. Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery: excluded from the minimum wage. Farmworkers of small farm employers: excluded from the minimum wage. Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm: excluded from the minimum wage.
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Amount
7.25
Currency
USD
Per unit
hour
Applies to
Covered, nonexempt workers
Exceptions
Amount
2.13
Category
tipped employees
Condition
individuals engaged in occupations in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the employer must pay at least $2.13 an hour in direct wages.
Amount
4.25
Category
employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage)
Condition
permitted for employees under 20 years of age during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer
Category
Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations (as defined in DOL regulations)
State: Arkansasanswers
The minimum wage is 11 USD per hour for employers with 4 or more employees. tipped employees: 2.63 USD per hour. full-time students: 85% of the general rate. learners and apprentices: 85% of the general rate. student learners: 85% of the general rate. bona fide executive, administrative, or professional employees and outside commission-paid salespersons: excluded from the minimum wage. students performing services for their school: excluded from the minimum wage. federal government employees: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of small agricultural employers: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofit camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. casual babysitters and companions: excluded from the minimum wage. newspaper delivery employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers of educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. bona fide independent contractors: excluded from the minimum wage. immediate family of agricultural employers: excluded from the minimum wage. piece-rate hand-harvest laborers who commute daily: excluded from the minimum wage. migrant hand-harvest laborers aged 16 or under: excluded from the minimum wage. range production of livestock: excluded from the minimum wage. small forestry and lumbering operations: excluded from the minimum wage. houseparents of nonprofit child welfare agencies: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of small-circulation newspapers: excluded from the minimum wage. home workers making evergreen wreaths: excluded from the minimum wage. organized camps and religious or nonprofit educational conference centers: excluded from the minimum wage. direct sellers: excluded from the minimum wage. minor league baseball players: excluded from the minimum wage.
Version 2 · effective from · a source has never been verified against the live page
Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
Amount
11
Currency
USD
Per unit
hour
Applies to
employers with 4 or more employees
Exceptions
Amount
2.63
Category
tipped employees
Condition
Tipped employees must be paid at least $2.63 per hour; the tips they earn must be enough to bring them up to the applicable minimum wage, otherwise the employer must add enough to their pay to do so.
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Change history
Federal: United States
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minimum_wage in us: version 2, effective 2026-10-23, published (new)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for employees engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. Newly hired employees who are less than 20 years old: 4.25 USD per hour.
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correction
minimum_wage in us: version 3, effective 2009-07-24, published (correction); replaces version 2. Replaces version 2 (published effective 2026-10-23, the fetch date; its source stated no date)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for Covered, nonexempt workers. tipped employees: 2.13 USD per hour. employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage): 4.25 USD per hour. Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations: excluded from the minimum wage. Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery: excluded from the minimum wage. Farmworkers of small farm employers: excluded from the minimum wage. Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm: excluded from the minimum wage.
State: Arkansas
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minimum_wage in us-ar: version 2, effective 2021-01-01, published (new)
The minimum wage is 11 USD per hour for employers with 4 or more employees. tipped employees: 2.63 USD per hour. full-time students: 85% of the general rate. learners and apprentices: 85% of the general rate. student learners: 85% of the general rate. bona fide executive, administrative, or professional employees and outside commission-paid salespersons: excluded from the minimum wage. students performing services for their school: excluded from the minimum wage. federal government employees: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of small agricultural employers: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofit camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. casual babysitters and companions: excluded from the minimum wage. newspaper delivery employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers of educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. bona fide independent contractors: excluded from the minimum wage. immediate family of agricultural employers: excluded from the minimum wage. piece-rate hand-harvest laborers who commute daily: excluded from the minimum wage. migrant hand-harvest laborers aged 16 or under: excluded from the minimum wage. range production of livestock: excluded from the minimum wage. small forestry and lumbering operations: excluded from the minimum wage. houseparents of nonprofit child welfare agencies: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of small-circulation newspapers: excluded from the minimum wage. home workers making evergreen wreaths: excluded from the minimum wage. organized camps and religious or nonprofit educational conference centers: excluded from the minimum wage. direct sellers: excluded from the minimum wage. minor league baseball players: excluded from the minimum wage.
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Category
Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, employees of certain small newspapers, seamen employed on foreign vessels, employees engaged in fishing operations, and employees engaged in newspaper delivery
Category
Farmworkers of small farm employers
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Farmworkers employed by anyone who used no more than 500 “man-days” of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year
Category
Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm.
Covered, nonexempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. … Tipped employees are individuals engaged in occupations in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the employer must pay at least $2.13 an hour in direct wages. … A minimum wage of not less than $4.25 an hour is permitted for employees under 20 years of age during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer. … Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay … Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations (as defined in DOL regulations); … Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, employees of certain small newspapers, seamen employed on foreign vessels, employees engaged in fishing operations, and employees engaged in newspaper delivery; … Farmworkers employed by anyone who used no more than 500 “man-days” of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year; … Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm.
(C) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day; … (1) In lieu of the rate prescribed by subsection (a)(1), any employer may pay any employee of such employer, during the first 90 consecutive calendar days after such employee is initially employed by such employer, a wage which is not less than $4.25 an hour. … (5) This subsection shall only apply to an employee who has not attained the age of 20 years
An employer may pay a full-time student a sub-minimum wage of not less than 85% of the applicable minimum wage rate, provided the employer has in advance a full-time student certificate, the student attends an accredited institution full-time, and the student is employed no more than 20 hours per week while school is in session and 40 hours per week while not in session.
Percent of general
85
Category
learners and apprentices
Condition
Employer has current and valid certification from the United States Department of Labor to employ learners and apprentices at a sub-minimum wage and pays not less than 85% of the minimum wage rate established by Arkansas Code § 11-4-210(a).
Percent of general
85
Category
student learners
Condition
Employer has current and valid certification from the United States Department of Labor to employ student-learners at a sub-minimum wage and pays not less than 85% of the minimum wage rate established by Arkansas Code § 11-4-210(a).
Percent of general
85
Category
bona fide executive, administrative, or professional employees and outside commission-paid salespersons
Excluded
yes
Condition
The Act does not apply to any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity or as an outside commission-paid salesperson.
Category
students performing services for their school
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any student performing services for any school, college, or university in which they are enrolled and are regularly attending classes.
Category
federal government employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any individual employed by the United States Government.
Category
employees of small agricultural employers
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any individual employed by an agricultural employer who did not use more than 500 man-days of agricultural labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year.
Category
nonprofit camp employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
An employee employed by a nonprofit recreational or educational camp that does not operate for more than seven (7) months in any calendar year.
Category
casual babysitters and companions
Excluded
yes
Condition
An employee employed on a casual basis in domestic service employment to provide babysitting services or companionship services for individuals who are unable to care for themselves because of age or infirmity.
Category
newspaper delivery employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
An employee engaged in the delivery of newspapers to retail subscribers.
Category
volunteers of educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any individual engaged in the activities of any educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization in which the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist or in which the services are rendered to the organizations gratuitously; this does not apply to an individual performing services for an employer engaged in a for-profit enterprise in return, exchange, or in anticipation of a donation or compensation to the organization (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(3))
Category
bona fide independent contractors
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any bona fide independent contractor, determined under the Empower Independent Contractors Act, Arkansas Code § 11-1-201 et seq. (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(4))
Category
immediate family of agricultural employers
Excluded
yes
Condition
The parent, spouse, child, or other member of an agricultural employer's immediate family (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(6))
Category
piece-rate hand-harvest laborers who commute daily
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who is employed as a hand-harvest laborer and is paid on a piece-rate basis in an operation customarily and generally recognized as having been paid on a piece-rate basis in the region of employment, commutes daily from his or her permanent residence to the farm, and has been employed in agriculture fewer than thirteen (13) weeks during the preceding calendar year (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(7))
Category
migrant hand-harvest laborers aged 16 or under
Excluded
yes
Condition
A migrant who is sixteen (16) years of age or under and employed as a hand-harvest laborer, paid on a piece-rate basis in an operation customarily so paid in the region, employed on the same farm as his or her parent or parents, and paid the same piece-rate as employees over age sixteen (16) on the same farm (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(8))
Category
range production of livestock
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any employee principally engaged in the range production of livestock (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(9))
Category
small forestry and lumbering operations
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any employee employed in planting or tending trees, cruising, surveying or felling timber, or in preparing or transporting logs or other forestry products to the mill, processing plants, or railroad or other transportation terminal if the number of employees employed by his or her employer in the forestry or lumbering operations does not exceed eight (8) (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(10))
Category
houseparents of nonprofit child welfare agencies
Excluded
yes
Condition
An employee of a nonprofit child welfare agency who serves as a houseparent directly involved in caring for children who reside in its residential facilities (orphans, in foster care, abused, neglected, abandoned, homeless, in need of supervision, or otherwise in crisis situations that lead to out-of-home placements) and is compensated at an annual rate of not less than $13,000, or $10,000 if the employee resides in the residential facility and receives board and lodging at no cost (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(12))
Category
employees of small-circulation newspapers
Excluded
yes
Condition
An employee employed in connection with the publication of any weekly, semiweekly, or daily newspaper with a circulation of less than four thousand (4,000), the major part of which circulation is within the county where published or counties contiguous thereto (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(13))
Category
home workers making evergreen wreaths
Excluded
yes
Condition
A home worker engaged in the making of wreaths composed principally of natural holly, pine, cedar, or other evergreens, including the harvesting of the evergreens or other forest products used in making such wreaths (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(16))
Category
organized camps and religious or nonprofit educational conference centers
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual employed by an organized camp or a religious or nonprofit educational conference center if it does not operate for more than seven (7) months in a calendar year, or if during the preceding calendar year its average receipts for any six (6) months were not more than 33 1/3% of its average receipts for the other six (6) months (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(17))
Category
direct sellers
Excluded
yes
Condition
A direct seller as defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. § 3508(b)(2), as it existed on January 1, 2021 (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(18))
Category
minor league baseball players
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated pursuant to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for wages and working conditions (11 CAR § 11-602(b)(19))
Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum wage in Arkansas is $11.00 per hour. The Arkansas Minimum Wage Act covers employers with 4 or more employees. … Tipped employees must be paid at least $2.63 per hour. The tips they earn must be enough to bring them up to the applicable minimum wage per hour. If the tips do not bring them up to minimum wage, the employer must add enough to their pay to do so.
An employer may pay a full-time student a sub-minimum wage of not less than eighty-five percent (85%) of the applicable minimum wage rate, provided the following conditions are met: … (B) Pays wages to such learners and apprentices at a rate of not less than eighty-five percent (85%) of the minimum wage rate established by Arkansas Code§ 11-4-210(a); and (2) For student learners, the employer: … does not apply to any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity or as an outside commission-paid salesperson who customarily performs his or her services away from his or her employer’s premises taking orders for goods or services. … The act shall not apply to: (1) Any student performing services for any school, college, or university in which they are enrolled and are regularly attending classes. … Any individual employed by the United States Government. … Any individual employed by an agricultural employer who did not use more than five hundred (500) man-days of agricultural labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year. … An employee employed by a nonprofit recreational or educational camp that does not operate for more than seven (7) months in any calendar year. … An employee employed on a casual basis in domestic service employment to provide: (i) Babysitting services; or (ii)(a) Companionship services for individuals who are unable to care for themselves because of age or infirmity. … An employee engaged in the delivery of newspapers to retail subscribers.