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Utah Wage and Hour Laws<\/h1>\n
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Wage and hour laws help ensure that employees are paid a fair wage by providing them with certain rights. The federal wage and hour laws are contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act<\/a> (FLSA), and provide minimum standards that the state laws may not dip below. States have the power to enact their own wage and hour laws, as long as the state law doesn’t violate the federal FLSA. Utah has chosen to enact its own minimum wage rule, and the following chart provides a brief overview of this law.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Utah Administrative Code Rule 610-1<\/a>: Minimum Wage<\/b><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
What’s Utah Required Minimum Wage?<\/b><\/td>\r\nAs of July 24, 2009, most employers in Utah must pay their employees at least $7.25 per hour.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>

Employees Exempted Under Section 34-40-104<\/a><\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

Utah’s minimum wage law doesn’t<\/u> apply to the following workers:

Employing Minors<\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

A "minor" is any person under 18 years old.<\/p>\r\n

In Utah, a minor employee must be paid at least $4.25 per hour for the first 90 days working for a particular employer, and then the minor must be paid a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>

Tipped Employees<\/b><\/p>\r\n

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A "tipped employee" is a worker who regularly receives tips from customers. For example, waiters and waitresses are traditionally tipped employees.<\/p>\r\n

An employer may credit tips received by tipped employees against the employer’s minimum wage obligation. An employee must receive at least $30.00 in tips per month before the credit is allowed.<\/p>\r\n

Tipped employees can be paid as little as $2.13 per hour, so long as this base pay combined with the employee’s tips equals at least $7.25 per hour.<\/p>\r\n

Additional information about tipped employees:<\/p>\r\n