Shift Calculators
State reference

Tennessee

DOL lists no state minimum wage rate for Tennessee. The federal minimum wage applies to employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act; DOL's own note is reproduced below. Source: US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, state minimum wage table, page updated July 1, 2026.

Minimum wage (US DOL)

Basic minimum rate
Not listed by DOL — no state minimum wage law.
Premium pay after designated hours
DOL lists no premium-pay-after-designated-hours text for Tennessee.

Source: US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, state minimum wage table; page updated July 1, 2026. Record: tn.

DOL notes for Tennessee

  • No state minimum wage law.
  • Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

Verbatim from US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, state minimum wage table; page updated July 1, 2026. Record: tn.

Rest periods (US DOL)

DOL lists no state rest-period requirement for Tennessee.

Source: US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Minimum Length of Rest Periods; table revised January 1, 2023. Record: tennessee.

Meal periods (US DOL)

Basic standard
½ hour for employees scheduled to work 6 consecutive hours or more. The meal break shall not be scheduled during or before the first hour of scheduled work activity.
Prescribed by
Statute
Coverage
Applicable to every employer, except in workplace environments that by their nature of business provide ample opportunity to take an appropriate meal break.
Comments
An employer may waive the right to a thirty-minute unpaid meal break pursuant to the voluntary written request of an employee who is principally employed in the service of food or beverages to customers and who, in the course of such employment, receives tips and reports the tips to the employer.

Source: US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Minimum Paid/Unpaid Meal Period; table revised January 1, 2023. Record: tennessee.

Hours, counted

This page states the DOL rows and nothing beyond them. It does not say how they apply to any particular job, schedule or agreement. For hours, the calculators do arithmetic on the numbers you type: shift hours, hour totals split at 40, long shifts.