Alaska Minimum Wage Changes: The Bottom Line

April 1st, 2007 Posted by Mark

The bottom line on the Alaska minimum wage is that employers face no changes to it in the near term future. There could be another attempt to change the Alaska minimum wage come next session of the legislature next year, but for the meantime, the Alaska minimum wage poster that you have hanging on the wall of your break room is still good to go, as well as the federal minimum wage poster that you have hanging there too.

Of course, that federal minimum wage poster might need some updating sooner or later, if and when the House and the Senate in the capital of Washington DC can finally figure out what and how they want to compromise on the federal minimum wage bills that they have.

Even when the federal minimum wage passes, if it does, the only change that Alaska employers will need to make would be for that minimum wage poster. The amount of minimum wage that you pay your employees would not be affected by the federal minimum wage change, because the new federal minimum wage—of $5.85 per hour—would still be less than the $7.15 per hour that is the Alaska minimum wage currently.

It wouldn’t be until 2009, actually, until the federal minimum wage gets to that same $7.15 per hour level, and by then, who knows what level the Alaska minimum wage will be at? It could be increased to $8 or beyond by that time.

In the meantime, Alaska employers can continue to follow their Alaska minimum wage law as they have been for the past three to four years. That includes all of the exemptions of the Alaska minimum wage, including those exemptions for farm workers, shrimp workers, domestic servants, nonprofit and religious employees, and bona fide professional and executive employees.

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