Reference

Sources & Methodology

Every figure on this site traces to a primary government source. We do not use third-party aggregators for the data fields. Last verification cycle: May 8, 2026.

Federal sources

DOL Wage & Hour Division — minimum wage: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/206
DOL Wage & Hour Division — final paycheck: www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/lastpaycheck
DOL Wage & Hour Division — complaint portal: https://webapps.dol.gov/contactwhd/
29 U.S.C. §§ 206 (min wage) / 207 (overtime) / 255 (statute of limitations) — Cornell LII

State sources

Below is the canonical primary-source URL list per state. Each state page has its own per-cell statute-pin (linked to the underlying statute or DOL guidance page).

Alabama AL

Alaska AK

Arizona AZ

Arkansas AR

California CA

Connecticut CT

Delaware DE

District of Columbia DC

Florida FL

Hawaii HI

Idaho ID

Illinois IL

Indiana IN

Iowa IA

Kansas KS

Kentucky KY

Louisiana LA

Maine ME

Maryland MD

Minnesota MN

Mississippi MS

Missouri MO

Montana MT

Nebraska NE

Nevada NV

New Hampshire NH

New Jersey NJ

www.nj.gov/labor/wageandhour

New Mexico NM

New York NY

North Dakota ND

Ohio OH

Oklahoma OK

Oregon OR

Rhode Island RI

South Carolina SC

South Dakota SD

Tennessee TN

Texas TX

Utah UT

Vermont VT

Virginia VA

Washington WA

West Virginia WV

Wisconsin WI

Wyoming WY

Verification methodology

Primary-source rule: Every minimum wage, every final-paycheck deadline, every waiting-time-penalty formula, every overtime threshold, every PTO-payout rule must be traceable to a state DOL page, a state legislature page, the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, or an official DOL guidance page. Secondary sources (Nolo, Justia, Paycor, ADP) are not acceptable for the data fields.

Fabrication guard: Where a sub-element cannot be confirmed within the verification budget, the cell is marked verification pending rather than invented. Schema-level validation enforces a 2026-01-01-or-later last-verified-date for any minimum-wage figure rendering on the site.

Annual refresh cadence: State minimum-wage tables update January 1. Every December our researcher re-verifies the entire min-wage column with the current state DOL page; effective dates are stamped on each row. Quarterly review for the rest of the data layer.

Reviewer signoff: Legal review is currently pending. We are retaining a US-licensed employment-law attorney to review state pages for substantive accuracy and per-state lawyer-advertising compliance before the dev preview ships. Once retained, the reviewer's name, bar number, state of admission, and signoff date will appear on every state page — and never as a fabricated placeholder in production HTML.