Facts about Michigan’s Minimum Wage Law

Michigan's Minimum Wage and Overtime Law covers:

• Employers who employ two or more persons, 16 years-of-age or older

• Certain employees in federally-covered businesses because the state minimum wage rate for those employees will be higher than the federally required rate as of October 1, 2006

• In situations where an employee is subject to both the state and federal minimum wage laws, the employee is entitled to the higher of the two minimum wage rates

 Michigan’s minimum wage:

• Has provided a minimum hourly wage rate of $5.15 per hour since September 1, 1997, but the rate increases to:

• $6.95 per hour, effective October 1, 2006

• $7.15 per hour, effective July 1, 2007; and

• $7.40 per hour, effective July 1, 2008.

      • Provides an overtime rate for non-exempt employees of 1½ times the regular rate of pay, for hours worked exceeding 40 in a workweek.

      • Establishes a training wage for new employees, ages 16 to 19, of $4.25 per hour for first 90 calendar days of employment; and

      • Establishes compensatory time provisions that allow an employee to accrue and use compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay if certain conditions are met.

State of Michigan
Department of Labor & Economic Growth - Wage & Hour Division
Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor
State of Michigan

Robert W. Swanson, Director
Department of Labor & Economic Growth

Douglas J. Kalinowski
Acting Deputy Director
Department of Labor & Economic Growth

John H. Finn, Administrator
Wage & Hour Division  

For more information

To learn more about Michigan’s minimum wage law, please contact:

Wage & Hour Division
Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth
6546 Mercantile Way – Suite 5
P.O. Box 30476
Lansing, MI 48909
Phone: 517.335.0400
Fax: 517.335.0077

Livonia:
Phone: 313.456.4906

Upper Peninsula:
Phone: 906.482.3602

Website:
www.michigan.govwagehour 

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