Alaska
Minimum Wage
Alaska’s minimum wage is currently $11.73 per hour.
For more information on Alaska’s minimum wage law, please click HERE.
Overtime
Alaska’s overtime law requires employers to pay employees at a rate of at least one and one-half times the regular rate of pay for any hours worked over 8 in a day or 40 in a workweek.
For more information on Alaska’s overtime law, including exemptions, please click HERE.
Pay Frequency
Alaska’s pay frequency statute requires employers to pay employees monthly or semi-monthly, at the election of the employee.
For more information on Alaska’s pay frequency law, please click HERE.
Taxable Wage Base ($000s): $51,700
New Employer Rate (% Taxable Wages): 1.00% (Alaska has an employee contribution rate of 0.5% that is not included in this rate)
Employee Tax Rate (% Taxable Wages): 0.51%
The State of Alaska currently does not have an individual income tax; therefore, no employee withholding for state income tax is required.
Alaska levies a corporate net income tax based on federal taxable income with certain Alaska adjustments. Multi-state corporations apportion income on water's edge basis using the standard apportionment formula of property, payroll, and sales.
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