Alabama minimum wage 2026

Alabama has no minimum wage law of its own, so most jobs there pay at least the federal $7.25 an hour. Next door, the Florida minimum wage is higher and Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi pay the same.

No increase is scheduled, so it stays at $7.25 an hour in 2027.

Full time, an Alabama minimum wage job pays $15,080 a year before tax.

After taxes, full-time minimum wage work in Alabama takes home $13,437 a year. Each paycheck every two weeks comes to $516.82. It takes 154.8 hours of work to take home $1,000. See your exact paycheck in the Alabama paycheck calculator.

It is below the middle: $20 an hour is more than 43% of Alabama workers earn, but less than half of them. The Alabama median wage is $21.96 an hour.

Wage statistics cover employees in all jobs, full and part time, not the self-employed.

Tipped workers in Alabama can be paid $2.13 an hour if tips bring them to at least $7.25.

The employer must make up the difference in any week tips fall short.

Alabama is tied for last with 19 other states at $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum; the highest is Washington, DC at $18.40 an hour. The Iowa minimum wage is the same $7.25, and so is the rate in Utah and Mississippi. The state minimum wages page lists all of them.

1.1% of hourly workers in Alabama earned the federal minimum of $7.25 or less in 2024.

Workers paid less than the minimum are mostly tipped or exempt from the law.