State

Minimum Wage Rate per Hour

Scheduled Increases and/or Variances

Alabama

none

Alaska

$7.75

Arizona

$7.35

$7.65 01/01/12

Arkansas

$7.25

Household employees

California

$8.00

San Francisco Ordinance - $10.24 (2012) [$9.92 2011]. More info...

Colorado

$7.36

$7.64 1/1/2012

Connecticut

$8.25

Delaware

$7.25

District of Columbia

$8.25

Federal Minimum + $1

Florida

$7.31

$7.67 on Jan. 1, 2012; Annual increases indexed to inflation.

Georgia

$7.25

Hawaii

$7.25

Employee guaranteed $2000/mo. income exempt

Idaho

$7.25

Illinois

$8.25

Indiana

$7.25

$7.25 7/24/09

Iowa

$7.25

$7.25 1/1/08

Kansas

$7.25

Federal minimum applies to domestic service

Kentucky

$7.25

Louisiana

none

Maine

$7.50

Maryland

$7.25

Live-in domestic employees must be paid the overtime differential (1.5 times hourly rate) for hours worked over 40 in a week.
$7.25 7/24/09

Massachusetts

$8.00

Michigan

$7.40

Minnesota

$7.25

Mississippi

none

Missouri

$7.25

Montana

$7.35

$7.65 01/01/12

Nebraska

$7.25

Nevada

$8.25

No employer paid health insurance provided, $7.25 if employer provides health insurance.
>Overtime based on hours over 8 in a day!

New Hampshire

$7.25

New Jersey

$7.25

New Mexico

$7.50

Santa Fe (City) $10.29 3/1/2012

New York

$7.25

$7.25 7/24/2009
Live-in domestic employees must be paid the greater of the overtime differential (1.5 times NYS hourly minimum wage) or the regular hourly wage for hours worked over 44 in a week. See NYS DOL for the law.

North Carolina

$7.25

North Dakota

$7.25

Ohio

$7.40

$7.70 effective 01/01/2012

Oklahoma

$7.25

Oregon

$8.50

adjusted to an inflation index every Jan. 1.
$8.80 01/01/2012

Pennsylvania

$7.25

10 or fewer workers: $7.25 7/24/2009

Rhode Island

$7.40

South Carolina

none

South Dakota

$7.25

Tennessee

none

Texas

$7.25

Utah

$7.25

Vermont

$8.15

Indexed annually

Virginia

$7.25

Washington

$8.67

$9.04 1/1/2012, Indexed annually Jan. 1

West Virginia

$7.25

Wisconsin

$7.25

Wyoming

$7.25