1 Alabama and South Carolina.
No regulations or not specified.
2 Illinois, Nevada,
New Mexico and Virginia. Monthly payday requirements for
Executive, Administrative, and Professional personnel.
3 Arizona. Payday two or
more days in a month, not more than 16 days apart.
4 Connecticut. Longer interval
(up to monthly) permitted if approved by labor commissioner.
5 Hawaii. Employees may
choose to be paid on a monthly basis under special election
procedure. Director of labor and industrial relations
also may grant exceptions to the general semi-monthly
payday requirement. Payday requirement applies only to
private sector employment.
6 Iowa. Regular payday
no more than 12-days excluding Sundays and holidays after
the end of the period in which the wages were earned .
Farm labor contractor at least monthly, semi-monthly,
or bi-weekly.
7 Louisiana. Applicable
to entities engaged in manufacturing, mining, or boring
for oil, employing 10 or more employees, and to every
public service corporation. Payment is required once every
two weeks or twice during each calendar month.
8 Maine. Payment due at
regular intervals not to exceed 16 days.
9 Michigan. Frequency of
payday depends on the occupation.
10 Mississippi. Applicable
to every entity engaged in manufacturing of any kind in
the State employing 50 or more employees and employing
public labor, and to every public service corporation
doing business in the State. Payment is required once
every two weeks or twice during each calendar month.
11 Montana. Payday 10
days apart.
12 Nebraska and Pennsylvania.
Payday designated by employer.
13 New York. Weekly payday
for manual workers. Semi-monthly payday upon approval
for manual workers and for clerical and other workers.
14 North Carolina. None
specified, pay periods may be daily, weekly, bi-weekly,
semi-monthly or monthly.
15 Texas. Monthly payday
for employees exempt from overtime provisions of the Fair
Labor Standards Act.
16 Utah. Payments are
to be paid at regular intervals, but in periods no longer
than semi-monthly.
17 Vermont. Employers
may implement bi-weekly and semi-monthly payday with written
notice.
18 Virginia. Employees
whose weekly wages total more than 150 percent of the
average weekly wage of the Commonwealth may be paid monthly,
upon agreement of each affected employee. Prepared
By:
Division
of External Affairs
Wage and Hour Division
Employment Standards Administration
U.S. Department of Labor
This
document was last revised in November 2004; unless otherwise
stated, the information reflects requirements that were
in effect, or would take effect, as of January 1, 2005.
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