Carson City, NV March 29, 2019
On
Monday, April 1, the Office of the Labor
Commissioner will release annual bulletins for Nevada’s minimum wage and daily
overtime requirements. The rates, which take effect July 1, 2019, will remain
unchanged from 2018. The annual bulletins can be obtained from the Office of
the Labor Commissioner’s website http://labor.nv.gov
or by calling (702) 486-2650 in southern Nevada and (775) 684-1890 in northern
Nevada.
The minimum wage for employees who are offered qualified
health benefits from their employers will remain at $7.25 per hour and the
minimum wage for employees who are not offered qualified health benefits will
remain $8.25 per hour.
The 2006 Minimum Wage Amendment to the Nevada
Constitution requires an analysis of the minimum wage each year based on
increases in the federal minimum wage or if greater, by the cumulative increase
in the cost of living. The cost of
living increase cannot increase by more than 3 percent each year. The increase in the federal minimum wage has
been greater than any cost of living increase through the 2019 calculation
period.
The rate for daily overtime will also remain the same
because the minimum wage rate is not changing. Nevada is one of a few states
with a daily overtime requirement for overtime pay from more than eight hours
of work in a 24-hour period in addition to the requirement to pay overtime for
more than 40 hours in a workweek.
Employees who are offered
qualified health benefits from their employer and earn less than $10.875 per
hour, and employees who are not offered qualified health benefits and who earn
less than $12.375 per hourmust be
paid overtime whenever they work more than eight hours in a 24-hour period, or
more than 40 hours in a week. Employees
that are exempt from overtime under Nevada state law are not subject to these
requirements.
The Office of the Labor Commissioner will continue to
monitor legislation regarding the minimum wage during the 2019 Legislative
Session.
About the Office of the Labor Commissioner
The Office of the Labor Commissioner is
a division of the Department of Business and Industry. The Labor Commissioner
strives to ensure that all workers are treated fairly under the law by
investigating complaints of non-payment of wages, state minimum wage, overtime,
and prevailing wage disputes. The office also monitors youth employment
standards, including work hours and safe, non-hazardous working conditions.
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