Methodology

Every rate on this site is derived, not typed. The generator reads two US Department of Labor tables, State Minimum Wage Laws (page updated 2026-07-01) and Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees (effective 2026-07-01), and cross-checks them against each other: the combined rate on the tipped table has to reconstruct from the cash wage plus the tip credit, and it has to match the basic table. Both DOL tables are works of a federal agency and are in the public domain.

26 states were then checked independently against their own labor department on 2026-09-06: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, MI, NY, OR, WA, NV, OH, VA, RI, HI, MN, MO, DE, IL, MD, NM, NJ, NE, VT, SD, ME. Where DOL and a state disagree the state wins and the disagreement is published. On this snapshot there were 0.

District of Columbia was read separately on 2026-09-07, against the jurisdiction's own published rate notice rather than a state labor department page. That brings the rows read at source to 27 of 51. It agreed with DOL.

We publish no projections. A scheduled increase appears only where an official source states both a date and a rate. Most states that index to inflation announce next year's figure in late September or October, so through most of the year they correctly show no next step at all. An empty cell here means the source is silent, not that no increase is coming.

Refresh cycle

Federal DOL Wage and Hour Division tables: re-captured by hand. There is no cron behind this yet, so the snapshot date on every page is the honest currency of the data.
State labor-department pages: the natural re-check points are 1 January and 1 July, when most rates step, plus late September to mid October, when the indexing states announce the following year. Florida is the outlier and steps on 30 September.
BLS CPI-W and CPI-U: used on the real-wage page only. Never used to project a future minimum wage.
City and county ordinances: maintained separately in the local-ordinance file. DOL publishes no local table, so these were not re-derived in the 2026-09-06 pass.

Primary sources, by state

ALAlabama (US DOL table)

AKAlaska labor department

AZArizona labor department

ARArkansas (US DOL table)

CACalifornia labor department

COColorado labor department

CTConnecticut labor department

DEDelaware labor department

DCDistrict of Columbia labor department

FLFlorida labor department

GAGeorgia (US DOL table)

HIHawaii labor department

IDIdaho (US DOL table)

ILIllinois labor department

INIndiana (US DOL table)

IAIowa (US DOL table)

KSKansas (US DOL table)

KYKentucky (US DOL table)

LALouisiana (US DOL table)

MEMaine labor department

MDMaryland labor department

MAMassachusetts (US DOL table)

MIMichigan labor department

MNMinnesota labor department

MSMississippi (US DOL table)

MOMissouri labor department

MTMontana (US DOL table)

NENebraska labor department

NVNevada labor department

NHNew Hampshire (US DOL table)

NJNew Jersey labor department

NMNew Mexico labor department

NYNew York labor department

NCNorth Carolina (US DOL table)

NDNorth Dakota (US DOL table)

OHOhio labor department

OKOklahoma (US DOL table)

OROregon labor department

PAPennsylvania (US DOL table)

RIRhode Island labor department

SCSouth Carolina (US DOL table)

SDSouth Dakota labor department

TNTennessee (US DOL table)

TXTexas (US DOL table)

UTUtah (US DOL table)

VTVermont labor department

VAVirginia labor department

WAWashington labor department

WVWest Virginia (US DOL table)

WIWisconsin (US DOL table)

WYWyoming (US DOL table)

What we do not do

We do not publish predicted indexed rates at all, labelled or otherwise. We do not collapse the standard rate and small-employer or training-wage carve-outs into a single number; each carve-out is footnoted. We do not provide legal advice and we do not consult on wage-and-hour disputes. Workers with a possible underpayment claim should contact the US DOL Wage and Hour Division or their state labor department directly.