Ohio Minimum Wage Law

Effective January 1, 2007, the minimum wage rate in Ohio is $6.85 per hour. The minimum wage rate is $5.15 per hour for employees of employers having gross annual receipts of $250,000 or less and for youth under the age of 16. An exception applies to certain agricultural workers performing hand harvest labor on a piece rate basis for which the wage rate can not be less than $2.80 per hour. Effective June 30, 2006, and before January 1, 2007, the minimum wage in Ohio is $5.15 per hour. Before June 30, 2006, employers in Ohio with $500,000 or more in gross annual sales must pay a minimum wage of $5.15 per hour. Employers with less than $500,000, but at least $150,000 in gross annual sales must pay $3.35 per hour. Employers with less than $150,000 in gross annual sales must pay employees at least $2.80 per hour.

Not covered by the act are employees of the United States, babysitters and live-in companions, people who deliver newspapers to the consumer, outside salespersons, executive, administrative and professional employees, certain agricultural employees, employees of charitable hospitals, police and fire fighters, students working part-time or on a seasonal basis for a political subdivision, and children's nonprofit camp and recreational employees.