Louisiana minimum wage 2026

Louisiana has no minimum wage law of its own, so most jobs there pay at least the federal $7.25 an hour. Next door, the minimum wage is higher in Arkansas and the same in Texas and Mississippi; the Mississippi minimum wage page has its history.

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

Full time, a Louisiana minimum wage job pays $15,080 a year before tax. See what $7.25 an hour pays in each state. The closest salary with its own page is $20,000 a year.

After taxes, full-time minimum wage work in Louisiana takes home $13,860 a year. Each paycheck every two weeks comes to $533.01. It takes 150.1 hours of work to take home $1,000. See the Louisiana income tax rate for the state's share. Run your own hours through the Louisiana hourly paycheck calculator.

It is below the middle: $20 an hour is more than 44% of Louisiana workers earn, but less than half of them. The Louisiana median wage is $21.89 an hour.

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

Tipped workers in Louisiana 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.

Louisiana 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 Kentucky minimum wage is the same $7.25, and so are Wyoming's and North Dakota's. The state minimum wages page lists all of them.

2.2% of hourly workers in Louisiana 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.