Alaska minimum wage rules
The state minimum wage is $13.00 an hour from July 1, 2025, $14.00 from July 1, 2026 and $15.00 from July 1, 2027 (Ballot Measure 1, 2024). From 2028 it is adjusted each January 1 for Anchorage inflation, rounded up to the next 10 cents, and it is never less than two dollars over the federal minimum wage, a two-dollar amount that is itself adjusted for inflation in later years. Tips cannot be credited toward it. Public school bus drivers must be paid at least two times the minimum wage. None of these amounts is calculated.
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Alaska minimum wage (state rate; amounts not calculated)
The state minimum wage is $13.00 an hour from July 1, 2025, $14.00 from July 1, 2026 and $15.00 from July 1, 2027 (Ballot Measure 1, 2024). From 2028 it is adjusted each January 1 for Anchorage inflation, rounded up to the next 10 cents, and it is never less than two dollars over the federal minimum wage, a two-dollar amount that is itself adjusted for inflation in later years. Tips cannot be credited toward it. Public school bus drivers must be paid at least two times the minimum wage. None of these amounts is calculated.
Alaska minimum wage: not calculated by HoursReady
HoursReady calculates no minimum wage for Alaska; its calculators apply the federal rules.
$13.00, $14.00, $15.00 in the rule text: not calculated by HoursReady.
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