Minimum Wage by State Calculator

Minimum wage by state in 2026: the full table

State minimum wages in 2026 run from $7.25 an hour, the federal floor, up to $18.40 in the District of Columbia. Twenty states still sit at $7.25. Some match it outright. Others have a lower number on the books that the federal rate simply overrides, and a few never passed a minimum wage law at all.

Twenty-two jurisdictions raised their rate during 2026: nineteen on January 1, plus Alaska, the District of Columbia and Oregon on July 1. Florida is next, stepping from $14.00 to $15.00 on September 30, 2026. Every figure below comes from the US Department of Labor tables revised July 1, 2026.

A handful of rows carry an employer-size tier that the headline number does not show. Ohio drops to $7.25 for employers under $405,000 in gross receipts, New Jersey uses $15.23 for employers with fewer than 6 employees, and Arkansas, Illinois and Nebraska only reach employers with 4 or more employees. West Virginia applies only at 6 or more. The calculator shows those details in the note under the result.

When state, federal and local minimum wages disagree

When more than one minimum wage applies to the same job, the highest one governs. That rule settles almost every case. The wrinkles are in how a state ends up under the federal number in the first place.

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee never passed a state minimum wage statute, so employees covered by the FLSA are owed the federal $7.25 there.

Georgia and Wyoming keep $5.15 on the books. That number is not payable to a covered worker; $7.25 is. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah get to the same place by a different road, writing FLSA-covered employment out of their state minimum wage laws and leaving the federal rate in charge for most employees.

Local ordinances run the other way, and this calculator does not track them. Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Flagstaff and dozens of other cities and counties set higher rates, and where one applies it is what you owe. New York and Oregon are the exception to the exception: their regional tiers are written into state law, not city ordinance, which is why the calculator carries them as state rates and lets you pick the region.

Tipped minimum wage and the tip credit

A tipped employee can be paid a reduced cash wage, and the employer counts tips toward the rest of what the minimum wage requires. That counted part is the tip credit. Federally the split is $2.13 in cash and a $5.12 credit against the $7.25 minimum. Each state sets its own cash wage, which is why the credit is $1.25 in Hawaii and $12.87 in Nebraska.

Seven states ban the tip credit entirely: Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. In those states the full state minimum has to be paid in cash and tips are on top, so the maximum credit is $0.00.

The test runs workweek by workweek. If cash wages plus tips do not reach the full minimum for that week, the employer owes the difference, and a good week cannot be averaged against a bad one. The tip credit calculator handles that makeup math and tipped overtime, which is why this page stops at the cash wage and the credit ceiling.

Turning an hourly minimum into a paycheck

Weekly gross is the applicable minimum times hours worked, with hours over 40 paid at 1.5 times the rate under FLSA section 7(a)(1). Multiply the weekly figure by the number of weeks worked to get annual gross. At a standard 40 hours for 52 weeks that is the familiar shortcut of hourly rate times 2,080.

Per-period gross is annual gross divided by the number of pay periods, and this is where one detail trips people up. Biweekly means every two weeks, so 26 periods a year. Semimonthly means twice a month, so 24. They are not interchangeable, and a semimonthly period is worth about 8% more than a biweekly one at the same hourly rate. The pay period converter shows the conversions side by side.

Everything on this page is gross. Federal income tax, state income tax, Social Security and Medicare all come off before anyone takes money home, and the employer pays more on top of that through its FICA match, FUTA and SUTA. For the net figure, use the hourly paycheck calculator. To see what the hire actually costs you, the employer cost calculator adds the employer side back in. Running a whole team rather than one worker? The Payroll Calculator app from WorkLogs44 does per-employee withholding across all 50 states plus DC.