Data and sources

Four records drive every figure on this site. The counts below are the record counts.

State minimum wage

56 jurisdictions — US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, state minimum wage table, page updated July 1, 2026

Rest periods

9 jurisdictions — DOL, Minimum Length of Rest Periods, revised January 1, 2023

Meal periods

23 jurisdictions — DOL, Minimum Paid/Unpaid Meal Period, revised January 1, 2023

Wages

853 occupations — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 national estimates

Retrieved

2026-09-29T01:41:36Z (September 2026)

Every state page restates the DOL rows for that jurisdiction in DOL's wording, with the DOL dates, and names the record. Every occupation page shows the BLS figures for one detailed occupation title and names the SOC code. No figure on the site is calculated from another, and none is estimated: where a record has no value, the page says so.

BLS marks some values as not available, or as at or above a top-coded amount. Those marks are printed as BLS prints them and are not turned into numbers.

Changes to the underlying tables are made by the agencies, not here. This site is rebuilt from a fresh copy of the four records, and the date each record carries is printed on every page that uses it.

Sources: DOL Wage and Hour Division state tables and BLS OEWS, retrieved 2026-09-29T01:41:36Z (September 2026). County and city minimum wages, collective bargaining agreements and employer policies are outside these records and are not described on this site.