Timing Requirements for Wage Payments in Kentucky

All employers are covered under Kentucky's wage payment law.

The law requires that for-profit corporations pay employees at least semimonthly, with a holdover of 18 days permitted. Mining employers must pay on or before the 15th and 30th day of each month, with a holdover of 15 days. Corporate employees absent on payday must be paid on six days' demand; mining employees, on demand.