The minimum wage is 12 USD per hour for an employee of an employer employing one or more employees (including the state or any political subdivision for purposes of Subsection A of 50-4-22). tipped employees: 3 USD per hour. persons with a disability under special certificates: 50% of the general rate. executive, administrative or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers and non-employees of educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. salespersons and piecework, flat rate or commission employees: excluded from the minimum wage. registered apprentices and learners: excluded from the minimum wage. G.I. bill trainees: excluded from the minimum wage. seasonal employees under certificate: excluded from the minimum wage. certain agricultural employees: excluded from the minimum wage. agricultural commodity processing employees: excluded from the minimum wage. group home resident employees: excluded from the minimum wage.
Effective from ; verified on . The state rule (New Mexico) is the highest of the 2 levels compared; every level is listed below.
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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Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
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: New Mexicoanswers
The minimum wage is 12 USD per hour for an employee of an employer employing one or more employees (including the state or any political subdivision for purposes of Subsection A of 50-4-22). tipped employees: 3 USD per hour. persons with a disability under special certificates: 50% of the general rate. executive, administrative or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers and non-employees of educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. salespersons and piecework, flat rate or commission employees: excluded from the minimum wage. registered apprentices and learners: excluded from the minimum wage. G.I. bill trainees: excluded from the minimum wage. seasonal employees under certificate: excluded from the minimum wage. certain agricultural employees: excluded from the minimum wage. agricultural commodity processing employees: excluded from the minimum wage. group home resident employees: excluded from the minimum wage.
Version 1 · effective from · verified on
Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
Amount
12
Currency
USD
Per unit
hour
Applies to
an employee of an employer employing one or more employees (including the state or any political subdivision for purposes of Subsection A of 50-4-22)
Exceptions
Amount
3
Category
tipped employees
Condition
An employee who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) a month in tips; on and after January 1, 2023, at least three dollars ($3.00) an hour; the tips combined with the employer's cash wage shall not equal less than the minimum wage rate as provided in Subsection A
Category
persons with a disability under special certificates
Condition
individuals, including individuals employed in agriculture, whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by physical or mental disability or injury or any other disability, employed under special certificates provided by regulation of the director, at wages that are lower than the minimum wage applicable under Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978, but not less than fifty percent of such wage
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Federal: United States
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new
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.
3in effect
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: New Mexico
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
1in effect
new
minimum_wage in us-nm: version 1, effective 2023-01-01, published (new)
The minimum wage is 12 USD per hour for an employee of an employer employing one or more employees (including the state or any political subdivision for purposes of Subsection A of 50-4-22). tipped employees: 3 USD per hour. persons with a disability under special certificates: 50% of the general rate. executive, administrative or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers and non-employees of educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. salespersons and piecework, flat rate or commission employees: excluded from the minimum wage. registered apprentices and learners: excluded from the minimum wage. G.I. bill trainees: excluded from the minimum wage. seasonal employees under certificate: excluded from the minimum wage. certain agricultural employees: excluded from the minimum wage. agricultural commodity processing employees: excluded from the minimum wage. group home resident employees: 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
executive, administrative or professional employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
an individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capacity and forepersons, superintendents and supervisors
Category
volunteers and non-employees of educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations
Excluded
yes
Condition
an individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist or where the services rendered to such organizations are on a voluntary basis
Category
salespersons and piecework, flat rate or commission employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
salespersons or employees compensated upon piecework, flat rate schedules or commission basis
Category
registered apprentices and learners
Excluded
yes
Condition
registered apprentices and learners otherwise provided by law
Category
G.I. bill trainees
Excluded
yes
Condition
G.I. bill trainees while under training
Category
seasonal employees under certificate
Excluded
yes
Condition
seasonal employees of an employer obtaining and holding a valid certificate issued annually by the director of the labor relations division of the workforce solutions department
Category
certain agricultural employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
any employee employed in agriculture meeting one of the conditions in 50-4-21(C)(8)(a) to (e), e.g. employed by an employer who did not use more than five hundred person-days of agricultural labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year, immediate family members, certain hand-harvest piece-rate laborers, or employees principally engaged in the range production of livestock or in milk production
Category
agricultural commodity processing employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
an employee engaged in the handling, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing or canning of any agricultural or horticultural commodity in its unmanufactured state
Category
group home resident employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
employees of charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations who reside on the premises of group homes operated by such charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations for persons who have a mental, emotional or developmental disability
A. Except as provided in Subsection C of this section, an employer shall pay to an employee a minimum wage rate of: … (5) on and after January 1, 2023, at least twelve dollars ($12.00) an hour. … "employer" includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative or organized group of persons employing one or more employees at any one time … C. An employee who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) a month in tips shall be paid a minimum hourly wage as follows: … (5) on and after January 1, 2023, at least three dollars ($3.00) an hour; and … the employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the tips combined with the employer's cash wage shall not equal less than the minimum wage rate as provided in Subsection A of this section. … shall, by regulation, provide for the employment under special certificates of individuals, including individuals employed in agriculture, whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by physical or mental disability or injury or any other disability, at wages that are lower than the minimum wage applicable under Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978, but not less than fifty percent of such wage. … C. "employee" includes an individual employed by an employer, but shall not include: … (1) an individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capacity and forepersons, superintendents and supervisors; … (3) an individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist or where the services rendered to such organizations are on a voluntary basis. … (4) salespersons or employees compensated upon piecework, flat rate schedules or commission basis; … (5) registered apprentices and learners otherwise provided by law; … (6) G.I. bill trainees while under training; … (7) seasonal employees of an employer obtaining and holding a valid certificate issued annually by the director of the labor relations division of the workforce solutions department. … (8) any employee employed in agriculture: … (a) if the employee is employed by an employer who did not, during any calendar quarter during the preceding calendar year, use more than five hundred person-days of agricultural labor; … (e) if the employee is principally engaged in the range production of livestock or in milk production; … (9) an employee engaged in the handling, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing or canning of any agricultural or horticultural commodity in its unmanufactured state; or … (10) employees of charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations who reside on the premises of group homes operated by such charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations for persons who have a mental, emotional or developmental disability.