The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for employees. tipped employees: 2.83 USD per hour. Learners and students (bona fide high school or college): 85% of the general rate. Labor on a farm: excluded from the minimum wage. Domestic service: excluded from the minimum wage. Delivery of newspapers: excluded from the minimum wage. Newspaper publication: excluded from the minimum wage. Bona fide outside salesman: excluded from the minimum wage. Educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. Golf caddy: excluded from the minimum wage. Seasonal employment: excluded from the minimum wage. Seasonal amusement or recreational establishments: excluded from the minimum wage. Switchboard operator: excluded from the minimum wage. Elected officials and their staff: excluded from the minimum wage. Executive, Administrative, and Professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage.
Effective from ; a source has never been verified against the live page. The state rule (Pennsylvania) 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: Pennsylvaniaanswers
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for employees. tipped employees: 2.83 USD per hour. Learners and students (bona fide high school or college): 85% of the general rate. Labor on a farm: excluded from the minimum wage. Domestic service: excluded from the minimum wage. Delivery of newspapers: excluded from the minimum wage. Newspaper publication: excluded from the minimum wage. Bona fide outside salesman: excluded from the minimum wage. Educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. Golf caddy: excluded from the minimum wage. Seasonal employment: excluded from the minimum wage. Seasonal amusement or recreational establishments: excluded from the minimum wage. Switchboard operator: excluded from the minimum wage. Elected officials and their staff: excluded from the minimum wage. Executive, Administrative, and Professional employees: 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
employees
Exceptions
Amount
2.83
Category
tipped employees
Condition
An employer may pay a minimum of $2.83 per hour to an employee who makes $135.00 per month in tips. The employer must make up the difference if the tips and $2.83 do not meet the regular Pennsylvania minimum wage.
Category
Learners and students (bona fide high school or college)
Condition
after obtaining a Special Certificate from the Bureau of Labor Law Compliance may be paid 85% of the minimum wage as follows: Learners: 40 hours a week. Maximum eight weeks. Students: Up to 20 hours a week. Up to 40 hours a week during school vacation periods
Percent of general
85
Category
Labor on a farm
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemption from both Minimum Wage and Overtime Rates
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: Pennsylvania
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
1superseded
new
minimum_wage in us-pa: version 1, effective 2026-10-23, published (new)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for employees in Pennsylvania.
2in effect
correction
minimum_wage in us-pa: version 2, effective 2009-07-24, published (correction); replaces version 1. Replaces version 1 (published effective 2026-10-23, the fetch date; its source stated no date)
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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
Domestic service in or about the private home of the employer
Category
Delivery of newspapers
Excluded
yes
Condition
Delivery of newspapers to the consumer
Category
Newspaper publication
Excluded
yes
Condition
Publication of weekly, semi-weekly or daily newspaper with a circulation of less than 4,000 when the major portion of circulation is in the county where published or a bordering county
Category
Bona fide outside salesman
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemption from both Minimum Wage and Overtime Rates
Category
Educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization volunteers
Excluded
yes
Condition
Educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization where no employer-employee relationship exists and service is rendered gratuitously
Category
Golf caddy
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemption from both Minimum Wage and Overtime Rates
Category
Seasonal employment
Excluded
yes
Condition
In seasonal employment, if the employee is under 18 years of age or if a student under 24 years of age is employed by a nonprofit health or welfare agency engaged in activities dealing with children with disabilities or by a nonprofit day or resident seasonal recreational camp for campers under the age of 18 years, which operates for a period of less than three months in any one year
Category
Seasonal amusement or recreational establishments
Excluded
yes
Condition
In employment by a public amusement or recreational establishment, organized camp, or religious or nonprofit educational conference center, if (i) it does not operate more than seven months a year or (ii) during the preceding calendar year, the average receipts for any 6 months were not more than 33% of its average receipts for the other 6 months of such year
Category
Switchboard operator
Excluded
yes
Condition
Switchboard operator employed by an independently-owned public telephone company which has no more than 750 stations
Category
Elected officials and their staff
Excluded
yes
Condition
Employees not subject to civil service laws who hold elective office or are on the personal staff of such an officeholder, are immediate advisers to the officeholder, or are appointed by the officeholder to serve on a policy making level
Category
Executive, Administrative, and Professional employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
Executive, Administrative, and Professional employees, as defined by the Department
The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act establishes a fixed Minimum Wage and Overtime
Rate for employees. … $7.25 per hour
Effective
July 24, 2009 … An employer may pay a minimum of $2.83 per hour
to an employee who makes $135.00 per month in
tips. The employer must make up the difference
if the tips and $2.83 do not meet the regular
Pennsylvania minimum wage. … • Learners and students (bona fide high school or
college), after obtaining a Special Certificate from
the Bureau of Labor Law Compliance, (651 Boas
Street, Room 1301, Harrisburg, PA 17121-0750) may
be paid 85% of the minimum wage as follows:
Learners: 40 hours a week. Maximum eight weeks
Students: Up to 20 hours a week. Up to 40 hours
a week during school vacation periods … EXEMPTIONS FROM BOTH
Minimum Wage and Overtime Rates … camp for campers under the age of 18 years,
which operates for a period of less than three
months in any one year
• In employment by a public amusement or
recreational establishment, organized camp,
or religious or nonprofit educational
conference center, if (i) it does not operate
more than seven months a year or (ii) during
the preceding calendar year, the average
receipts for any 6 months were not more
than 33% of its average receipts for the other
6 months of such year
• Switchboard operator employed by an
independently-owned public telephone
company which has no more than 750 stations
• Employees not subject to civil service laws who
hold elective office or are on the personal staff
of such an officeholder, are immediate advisers
to the officeholder, or are appointed by the
officeholder to serve on a policy making level
• Executive, Administrative, and Professional
employees, as defined by the Department … • Labor on a farm
• Domestic service in or about the private home of
the employer
• Delivery of newspapers to the consumer
• Publication of weekly, semi-weekly or daily
newspaper with a circulation of less than
4,000 when the major portion of circulation
is in the county where published or a bordering
county
• Bona fide outside salesman
• Educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit
organization where no employer-employee
relationship exists and service is rendered
gratuitously
• Golf caddy
• In seasonal employment, if the employee is
under 18 years of age or if a student under
24 years of age is employed by a nonprofit
health or welfare agency engaged in activities
dealing with children with disabilities or by a
nonprofit day or resident seasonal recreational
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for employees. tipped employees: 2.83 USD per hour. Learners and students (bona fide high school or college): 85% of the general rate. Labor on a farm: excluded from the minimum wage. Domestic service: excluded from the minimum wage. Delivery of newspapers: excluded from the minimum wage. Newspaper publication: excluded from the minimum wage. Bona fide outside salesman: excluded from the minimum wage. Educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. Golf caddy: excluded from the minimum wage. Seasonal employment: excluded from the minimum wage. Seasonal amusement or recreational establishments: excluded from the minimum wage. Switchboard operator: excluded from the minimum wage. Elected officials and their staff: excluded from the minimum wage. Executive, Administrative, and Professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage.