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Notes: The overtime premium rate is one and one-half times the employee's regular rate, unless otherwise specified. The overtime premium pay is for nonsupervisory, nonfarm, private sector employers.
| State | Premium Pay after Designated Hours Day-Week |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ALABAMA | ||
| ALASKA | 8 40 | Under a voluntary flexible work hour plan a 10 hour day, 40 hour workweek may be instituted with premium pay after 10 hours a day instead of after 8 hours. The premium overtime pay requirement on daily or weekly basis is not applicable to employers of fewer than 4 employees. |
| ARIZONA | # | |
| ARKANSAS | N/A 40 | Applicable to employers of 4 or more employees |
| CALIFORNIA | 8 40 | Daily: 8 Over 12 (double time); Weekly: 40; on 7th day: First 8 hours (time and half) Over 8 hours on 7th day (double time). Exceptions apply to an employee working pursuant to an alternative workweek adopted pursuant to applicable Labor Code sections and for time spent commuting. |
| COLORADO | 12 40 | Overtime provisions applicable to retail and service, commercial support service, food and beverage, and health and medical industries. |
| CONNECTICUT | 40 | In restaurants and hotel restaurants, for the 7th consecutive day of work, premium pay is required at time and one half the minimum rate. |
| DELAWARE | ||
| DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | 40 | |
| FLORIDA | N/A | |
| GEORGIA | ||
| HAWAII | 40 | An employee earning a guaranteed monthly compensation of $2,000 or more is exempt from overtime law. |
| IDAHO | ||
| ILLINOIS | 40 | Applicable to employers of 4 or more employees, excluding family members. |
| INDIANA | 40 | The overtime premium rate is one and one-half times the employee's regular rate, unless otherwise specified. Applicable to employers of 2 or more employees. |
| IOWA | ||
| KANSAS | 46 | The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. |
| KENTUCKY | 40 | The 7th day overtime law - separate from the minimum wage law - requires premium pay on the seventh day for those employees who work seven days in any one workweek. Compensating overtime is allowed upon written request by an employee. |
| LOUISIANA | N/A | |
| MAINE | 40 | |
| MARYLAND | 40 | |
| MASSACHUSETTS | 40 | |
| MICHIGAN | 40 | |
| MINNESOTA | 48 | |
| MISSISSIPPI | N/A | |
| MISSOURI | 40 | Premium pay required after 52 hours in seasonal amusement or recreation businesses. |
| MONTANA | 40 | |
| NEBRASKA | ||
| NEVADA | 8 40 | Employer must pay 1 1/2 times an employees regular wage rate whenever an employee who is paid less than 1 1/2 times the applicable minimum wage rate works more than 40 hours in any workweek or more than 8 hours in any workday, unless otherwise exempted. The following amounts are the wage rates when daily overtime may be applicable: employees who receive qualified health benefits from their employers and earn less than $10.87 per hour and employees earning less than $12.37 per hour who do not receive qualified health benefits. The rate for the coming year will be equal to the federal level for those workers with insurance and $1 more an hour for those without medical coverage. |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE | 40 | |
| NEW JERSEY | 40 | |
| NEW MEXICO | 40 | |
| NEW YORK | 40 | |
| N. CAROLINA | 40 | Premium pay is required after 45 hours a week in seasonal amusements or recreational establishments. |
| N. DAKOTA | 40 | |
| OHIO | 40 | |
| OKLAHOMA | ||
| OREGON | 40 | Premium pay required after 10 hours a day in nonfarm canneries, driers, or packing plants and in mills, factories or manufacturing establishments (excluding sawmills, planning mills, shingle mills, and logging camps). |
| PENNSYLVANIA | 40 | |
| RHODE ISLAND | 40 | Time and one-half premium pay for work on Sundays and holidays in retail and certain other businesses is required. |
| S. CAROLINA | N/A | |
| S. DAKOTA | ||
| TENNESSEE | N/A | |
| TEXAS | ||
| UTAH | ||
| VERMONT | 40 | The State overtime pay provision has very limited application because it exempts numerous types of establishments, such as retail and service; seasonal amusement/recreation; hotels, motels, restaurants; and transportation employees to whom the Federal (FLSA) overtime provision does not apply. |
| VIRGINIA | # | |
| WASHINGTON | 40 | Premium pay not applicable to employees who request compensating time off in lieu of premium pay. |
| WEST VIRGINIA | 40 | |
| WISCONSIN | 40 | |
| WYOMING |
