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Minimum Wage
Maine’s minimum wage rate is currently $13.80 per hour. Please note that there are several municipalities that have their own minimum wage rates.
For more information on Maine’s minimum wage law, please click HERE.
Overtime
Maine’s overtime law requires employers to pay employees at a rate of one and one half for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any workweek.
Pay Frequency
Maine’s pay frequency law requires employers to pay employees at established, regular intervals not to exceed 16 days for all wages earned to within 8 days of the payment date.
Taxable Wage Base ($000s): $12,000
New Employer Rate (% Taxable Wages) : 1.97%
Employee Tax Rate (% Taxable Wages): None
Maine requires employers to withhold income tax on all residents and nonresidents with Maine source income.
All employers with an office or transacting business within the state and making payment of taxable wages to Maine residents or nonresidents must withhold state tax. In addition, nonresident employers may withhold Maine taxes from the wages of employees who are Maine residents as a convenience to those employees.
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Maine’s minimum wage rate is currently $13.80 per hour. Please note that there are several municipalities that have their own minimum wage rates.
Maine’s overtime law requires employers to pay employees at a rate of one and one half for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any workweek.
Maine requires employers to withhold income tax on all residents and nonresidents with Maine source income.
