Oklahoma Minimum Wage Law

Oklahoma state law provides that the state minimum wage cannot be less than the federal minimum wage. Therefore, effective July 24, 2009, the minimum wage rate in Oklahoma is $7.25 per hour ($6.55 per hour effective July 24, 2008 and before July 24, 2009; $5.85 per hour effective July 24, 2007 and before July 24, 2008).

All employers of ten or more full-time employees at one location or place of business or employers with a gross business of more than $100,000 annually are covered by Oklahoma's minimum wage law. Every employer in Oklahoma must pay employees 18 years of age and older a minimum wage of $2.00 per hour. Excluded from coverage are individuals employed as: (1) farm laborers in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural commodity or connected with the operation or management of a farm; (2) domestic service in or about private homes; (3) U.S. Government service; (4) volunteers in a charitable or religious organization; (5) newspaper vendors or carriers; (6) employees of any carrier subject to regulation by Part I of the Interstate Commerce Act; (7) employees of any employer subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act or any other federal wage and hour law that is paying the minimum wage under the applicable provisions; (8) any executive, administrative, professional employee or outside salesperson; (9) part-time employment of less than 25 hours per week; (10) work by a person under 18 years of age who is not a graduate of high school or a vocational training program, or a person under 22 years of age who is regularly enrolled in a high school, college, university or vocational training program; (11) feed store operators for the benefit of farmers and ranchers; (12) reserve force deputy sheriffs.