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.
Effective from ; verified on . The federal rule (United States) 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.
Version 3 · effective from · verified on
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: Wyoming
The minimum wage is 5.15 USD per hour for each of his or her employees. tipped employees: 2.13 USD per hour. employees under 20 years of age: 4.25 USD per hour. agricultural employees: excluded from the minimum wage. domestic service employees: excluded from the minimum wage. executive, administrative or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. government employees: excluded from the minimum wage. educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organization volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. outside salesmen: excluded from the minimum wage. on-call ambulance or vehicle drivers: excluded from the minimum wage.
Version 2 · effective from · verified on
Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
Amount
5.15
Currency
USD
Per unit
hour
Applies to
each of his or her employees
Exceptions
Amount
2.13
Category
tipped employees
Condition
all employers who employ tipped employees shall not pay less than $2.13 per hour to his tipped employees; if the wage paid combined with tips received during a given pay period does not equal at least the minimum wage in subsection (a), the employer shall pay the difference. A "tip" employee is one who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) a month in tips.
Amount
4.25
Category
employees under 20 years of age
Condition
any employer may pay any employee who has not attained the age of twenty (20) years a wage which is not less than $4.25 per hour during the first ninety (90) consecutive days after the employee is initially employed by the employer
Category
agricultural employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
"Employee" shall not include any individual employed in agriculture
Category
domestic service employees
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: Wyoming
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
2in effect
new
minimum_wage in us-wy: version 2, effective 2026-10-24, published (new)
The minimum wage is 5.15 USD per hour for each of his or her employees. tipped employees: 2.13 USD per hour. employees under 20 years of age: 4.25 USD per hour. agricultural employees: excluded from the minimum wage. domestic service employees: excluded from the minimum wage. executive, administrative or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. government employees: excluded from the minimum wage. educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organization volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. outside salesmen: excluded from the minimum wage. on-call ambulance or vehicle drivers: 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
"Employee" shall not include any individual employed in domestic service in or about a private home
Category
executive, administrative or professional employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
"Employee" shall not include any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity
Category
government employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
"Employee" shall not include any individual employed by the United States, or by the state or any political subdivision thereof
Category
educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organization volunteers
Excluded
yes
Condition
"Employee" shall not include any 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 organization are on a voluntary basis
Category
outside salesmen
Excluded
yes
Condition
"Employee" shall not include any individual employed as an outside salesman whose compensation is solely commission on sales
Category
on-call ambulance or vehicle drivers
Excluded
yes
Condition
"Employee" shall not include any individual whose employment is driving an ambulance or other vehicle from time to time as necessity requires but who is on call at any time
(a) Every employer shall pay to each of his or her
employees wages at a rate of not less than five dollars and
fifteen cents ($5.15) per hour. … (b) Effective April 1, 2001 and thereafter, all employers
who employ tipped employees shall not pay less than two dollars
and thirteen cents ($2.13) per hour to his tipped employees. … A "tip" employee is one who customarily and regularly
receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) a month in tips. … (c) In lieu of the rate prescribed in subsection (a) of
this section, any employer may pay any employee who has not
attained the age of twenty (20) years a wage which is not less
than four dollars and twenty-five cents ($4.25) per hour during
the first ninety (90) consecutive days after the employee is
initially employed by the employer. … (iv) "Employee" includes any individual employed by
an employer but shall not include:
(A) Any individual employed in agriculture;
(B) Any individual employed in domestic service
in or about a private home;
(C) Any individual employed in a bona fide
executive, administrative, or professional capacity;
(D) Any individual employed by the United
States, or by the state or any political subdivision thereof;
(E) Any 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 organization are on
a voluntary basis; … (G) Any individual employed as an outside
salesman whose compensation is solely commission on sales;
(H) Any individual whose employment is driving
an ambulance or other vehicle from time to time as necessity
requires but who is on call at any time;