Wyoming minimum wage.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text specifies an effective date of July 1, 2021, but since the bill did not pass, this date is not relevant.

Wyoming Minimum Wage Increase

The bill proposes to increase the minimum hourly wage in Wyoming and remove exceptions for tipped employees and youth.

What This Bill Does

• Increases the minimum hourly wage from $5.15 to $15.00 per hour.
• Removes special rules that allowed lower wages for tipped workers and young people under a certain age.

Who It Names or Affects

• Employers who pay their employees in Wyoming
• Employees working in Wyoming

Terms To Know

Minimum Wage

The lowest hourly rate that employers must legally pay to workers.

Tipped Employees

Workers who earn part of their income from tips, such as waiters and bartenders.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill did not pass in the session it was introduced.
• It does not specify how employers will adjust to the new wage requirements.

Current Bill Text

21LSO-0625
2021
STATE OF WYOMING
21LSO-0625
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0206

Wyoming minimum wage.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Provenza, Clifford, Connolly, Sherwood and Yin and Senator(s) Gierau and Rothfuss

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; increasing the minimum hourly wage; repealing the minimum hourly wage exceptions for tipped employees and youth; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 27
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4
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202(a) is amended to read:

27
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4
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202.

Minimum wage rates.

(a)

Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employees
wages at a rate
a minimum wage
of not less than
five dollars and fifteen cents ($5.15)
fifteen dollars ($15.00)
per hour.

Section 2.

W.S. 27
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4
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202(b) and (c) is repealed.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2021
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(END)

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