Delaware Minimum Wage Law

Effective January 1, 2007, Delaware's minimum wage rate is $6.65 per hour ($7.15 per hour effective January 1, 2008). Before January 1, 2007, Delaware's minimum wage rate is $6.15 per hour.

All employees are covered under Delaware's minimum wage law except:

  1. agricultural employees,
  2. domestics,
  3. executive, administrative and professional employees, or outside commissioned salespersons (not including route drivers),
  4. employees of the United States,
  5. voluntary workers for educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations, and
  6. those employed in the catching and first processing of seafood.

Also exempt are individuals under the age of 18 participating in and employed as junior counselors or counselors in training by a nonprofit organization in a summer camp program.

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