The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for each of the employer's employees. tipped employees: 4.86 USD per hour. students enrolled in vocational education or related programs: 85% of the general rate. employees of nonprofit youth camps: excluded from the minimum wage. hunting or fishing guide service workers: excluded from the minimum wage. golf course caddies: excluded from the minimum wage. youthful or first-time offender program participants: excluded from the minimum wage. prison or jail inmates: excluded from the minimum wage. actors or extras for a motion picture: excluded from the minimum wage. casual babysitters: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. student trainees: excluded from the minimum wage. companionship services employees: excluded from the minimum wage. family home care providers: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals contracting to provide care to elderly or disabled persons: excluded from the minimum wage.
Effective from ; a source has never been verified against the live page. The state rule (North Dakota) 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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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: North Dakotaanswers
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for each of the employer's employees. tipped employees: 4.86 USD per hour. students enrolled in vocational education or related programs: 85% of the general rate. employees of nonprofit youth camps: excluded from the minimum wage. hunting or fishing guide service workers: excluded from the minimum wage. golf course caddies: excluded from the minimum wage. youthful or first-time offender program participants: excluded from the minimum wage. prison or jail inmates: excluded from the minimum wage. actors or extras for a motion picture: excluded from the minimum wage. casual babysitters: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. student trainees: excluded from the minimum wage. companionship services employees: excluded from the minimum wage. family home care providers: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals contracting to provide care to elderly or disabled persons: 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
7.25
Currency
USD
Per unit
hour
Applies to
each of the employer's employees
Exceptions
Amount
4.86
Category
tipped employees
Condition
A tip credit of thirty-three percent of the minimum wage may be allowed for tipped employees; with the tip credit applied, the current minimum direct wage payable to a tipped employee is $4.86 per hour. Employer must inform the employee in advance and keep records showing at least the minimum wage when direct wages and tip credit are combined.
Category
students enrolled in vocational education or related programs
Condition
The commissioner may issue subminimum wages for students enrolled in vocational education or related programs as long as the wage is not below eighty-five percent of the current state minimum wage.
Percent of general
85
Category
employees of nonprofit youth camps
Excluded
Upcoming changes
No published changes are waiting to take effect.
Change history
Federal: United States
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
2superseded
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: North Dakota
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
2in effect
new
minimum_wage in us-nd: version 2, effective 2009-07-24, published (new)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for each of the employer's employees. tipped employees: 4.86 USD per hour. students enrolled in vocational education or related programs: 85% of the general rate. employees of nonprofit youth camps: excluded from the minimum wage. hunting or fishing guide service workers: excluded from the minimum wage. golf course caddies: excluded from the minimum wage. youthful or first-time offender program participants: excluded from the minimum wage. prison or jail inmates: excluded from the minimum wage. actors or extras for a motion picture: excluded from the minimum wage. casual babysitters: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. student trainees: excluded from the minimum wage. companionship services employees: excluded from the minimum wage. family home care providers: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals contracting to provide care to elderly or disabled persons: 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
Employees of nonprofit camps that are directly youth-related and intended for educational purposes.
Category
hunting or fishing guide service workers
Excluded
yes
Condition
A guide, cook, or camp-tender for a hunting or fishing guide service.
Category
golf course caddies
Excluded
yes
Condition
Golf course caddies.
Category
youthful or first-time offender program participants
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any person in a program for youthful or first-time offenders designed as an alternative to incarceration, meeting the listed conditions.
Category
prison or jail inmates
Excluded
yes
Condition
Prison or jail inmates who do work for the prison, jail, institution, or other areas directly associated with the incarceration program.
Category
actors or extras for a motion picture
Excluded
yes
Condition
Actors or extras for a motion picture.
Category
casual babysitters
Excluded
yes
Condition
Any person working on a casual basis for less than twenty hours per week for less than three consecutive weeks in domestic service employment providing babysitting services.
Category
volunteers
Excluded
yes
Condition
Volunteers as described in this subdivision.
Category
student trainees
Excluded
yes
Condition
Student trainees meeting the following six criteria (training similar to vocational school, for the benefit of the trainee, no displacement, no immediate employer benefit, not entitled to a job or wages).
Category
companionship services employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exempt to the extent that those companionship services are provided by an employee from ten p.m. to nine a.m., up to a total of eight hours, during which time the employee is available to perform duties but is free to sleep and otherwise engage in normal private pursuits in the aged or disabled individual's home.
Category
family home care providers
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who provides family home care is exempt from any minimum wage and hour standards that may be prescribed under this chapter.
Category
individuals contracting to provide care to elderly or disabled persons
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who contracts with an elderly or disabled person, or a spouse or relative, to provide room, board, supervisory care, and personal services to that elderly or disabled person is exempt.
every employer shall pay to each of the employer's employees: … c. Effective July 24, 2009, a wage of at least seven dollars and twenty-five cents per hour. … to the extent that those companionship services are provided by an employee from ten p.m. to nine a.m., up to a total of eight hours, during which time the employee is available to perform duties for the aged or disabled individual, but is free to sleep and otherwise engage in normal private pursuits in the aged or disabled individual's home. … 2. An individual who provides family home care is exempt from any minimum wage and hour standards that may be prescribed under this chapter. … 3. An individual who contracts with an elderly or disabled person, or a spouse or relative of an elderly or disabled person as described in subdivision b of subsection 4, to provide room, board, supervisory care, and personal services to that elderly or disabled person is exempt from any minimum wage and hour standards that may be prescribed under this chapter.
The following are exempt from minimum wage and working conditions provided in this chapter: … a. Employees of nonprofit camps that are directly youth-related and intended for educational purposes. … b. A guide, cook, or camp-tender for a hunting or fishing guide service. … c. Golf course caddies. … d. Any person in a program for youthful or first-time offenders designed as an alternative to incarceration if the person: … e. Prison or jail inmates who do work for the prison, jail, institution, or other areas directly associated with the incarceration program. … f. Actors or extras for a motion picture. … g. Any person working on a casual basis for less than twenty hours per week for less than three consecutive weeks in domestic service employment providing babysitting services. … h. Volunteers as described in this subdivision: … i. Student trainees meeting the following six criteria: … The commissioner may issue subminimum wages for students enrolled in vocational education or related programs as long as the wage is not below eighty-five percent of the current state minimum wage. … A tip credit of thirty-three percent of the minimum wage may be allowed for tipped employees.