Nevada’s minimum wage will to go up to $12 per hour beginning July 1, 2024.
Assembly Bill 456, passed in 2019, increased the minimum wage in increments of 75 cents annually over a five-year period. The final increase effective July 1, 2024, will bring Nevada’s minimum wage to $12 per hour.
Nevada Ballot Question 2, passed by Nevada voters in November 2022, eliminated the two-tier minimum wage system which provided a reduction in the required minimum wage if an employer offered qualified health benefits. Unless otherwise exempted by law, the $12 minimum wage applies to all employees in the State of Nevada.
An increase in the minimum wage will also increase the daily overtime rates, except for those employees exempted from overtime requirements under NRS 608.018.
Employees in Nevada that earn one and one-half times the minimum wage ($18 per hour) or more are eligible for overtime at one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for over 40 hours of work in a week.
Employees that earn less than $18 per hour are eligible for overtime at one and one-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay for over 8 hours of work in a 24-hour period, or, over 40 hours of work in a workweek.
(Office of the Labor Commissioner contributed to this report.)
