Key Terms: Minimum Wage Edition
Federal minimum wage rate is the minimum wage applied by the federal government.
The Minimum Wage Finder (MWF) tracks the minimum wage rates across the country by state, city, job type, job function, effective date, and more. It also identifies the proper minimum wage rate for employees based on their work address.
The Minimum Wage Finder helps companies ensure employees are paid the minimum wage when appropriate, helping to avoid legal issues and fines by remaining compliant. The Minimum Wage Finder uses the same proprietary technology as the Symmetry Tax Engine with leading-edge mapping technology and geospatial boundary maps for jurisdictions.
Symmetry’s research team keeps track of past, present, and future wage rate changes. Having access to these wage rates allows you to budget the cost of compensation accurately.
Use exact latitude and longitude coordinates for employees’ work addresses to pinpoint the exact minimum wage rates that apply to individual employees. Also returns any exemption thresholds and additional limits.
Keep up with minimum wage rate increases ahead of time for your strategic compensation forecasting and hiring projection planning purposes.
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Ideal for payroll, tax, and human resources professionals to identify minimum wage rates for employees on a one-by-one basis. Allows you to confirm wage rates are in compliance as a position is posted or apply rates precisely rather than on expectation.
Allows corporate users to process a large group of addresses — great for audits of your compensation data and data clean-up in your payroll system.
Web services is great for HCM software companies looking for the most accurate minimum wage determination for clients’ employees and for large employers wanting to appropriately set up new employees’ compensation and audit the minimum wage rates of existing employees. Incorporates minimum wage rate data directly into your HR/payroll system or application via XML.
* Web Services is a technically-driven experience. Payroll departments would have to work in tandem with developers to enable this solution.
<MinimumWage>
<Authority>State</Authority>
<Rate>12.0</Rate>
<WageType>Regular</WageType>
<EffectiveDate>2020-01-01</EffectiveDate>
<Notes>25 employees or less</Notes>
</MinimumWage>
<MinimumWage>
<Authority>City</Authority>
<Rate>16.63</Rate>
<WageType>Regular-Industry-Specific</WageType>
<EffectiveDate>2019-07-01</EffectiveDate>
<Notes>hotel workers</Notes>
</MinimumWage>
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The Minimum Wage Finder is a minimum wage rate lookup tool that provides all associated wage rates for a specific work location or locations.
Users enter a work address or addresses into Symmetry’s Minimum Wage Finder along with a date, which then normalizes and geocodes the addresses and applies the latitude and longitude to our 35,000 geospatial files. Based on the location(s) and date, the Minimum Wage Finder then returns all of the minimum wage rates associated with that location and date.
The Minimum Wage Finder returns the minimum wage rates by effective date for the employees’ work address along with the job type, job function, city, and state. For example, Symmetry’s Minimum Wage Finder might return the federal and state regular minimum wage, the federal and state tipped minimum wage, and the federal specific white-collar exemption thresholds along with what job functions are exempt (such as computer employee.) It also might return any additional information such as any minimums for tips received for tipped employees.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 created the minimum wage, after social upheaval about unfair labor and child labor practices across the U.S. at the time. Local minimum wage laws at the county and municipal level have started to gain steam in the last few years, setting their own rates, separate from their states.
Federal minimum wage rate is the minimum wage applied by the federal government.
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