Nebraska Minimum Wage (2016) Poster Required

Notice to Employees
Except as provided below, every employer of four or more persons at any one time shall pay its employees a minimum wage of 
nine dollars per hour.
• If the employee is compensated by way of gratuities, the employer shall pay wages at the minimum rate of two dollars and 
thirteen cents per hour, plus all gratuities given to them for services rendered. The sum of wages and gratuities received by 
each person compensated by way of gratuities shall equal or exceed nine per hour. 
• Any employer employing student-learners as part of a bona fide vocational training program shall pay such student-learners’ 
wages at a rate of at least seventy-five percent of the minimum wage rate.
• An employer may pay a new employee younger than 20 who is not a seasonal or migrant worker, a training wage of at least 
seventy-five percent of the federal minimum wage for ninety days from the date the new employee was hired, subject to the 
terms and conditions described in Neb. Rev. Stat. §48-1203.01. 
48-1202.  For purposes of the Wage and Hour Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. Employ shall include to permit to work;
2. Employer shall include any individual, partnership, limited liability company, association, corporation, business trust, legal 
representative, or organized group of persons employing four or more employees at any one time except for seasonal em-
ployment of not more than twenty weeks in any calendar year, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in 
relation to an employee, but shall not include the United States, the state, or any political\
 subdivision thereof;
3. Employee shall include any individual employed by any employer but shall not include:
a. Any individual employed in agriculture; 
b. Any individual employed as a baby-sitter in or about a private home; 
c. Any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity or as a superintendent or 
supervisor;
d. Any individual employed by the United States or by the state or any political subdivision thereof; 
e. Any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization when the em-
ployer-employee relationship does not in fact exist or when the services rendered to such organization are on a voluntary 
basis; 
f. Apprentices and learners otherwise provided by law;
g. Veterans in training under supervision of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; 
h. A child in the employment of his or her parent or a parent in the employment of his or her child; or 
i. Any person who, directly or indirectly, is receiving any form of federal, state, county, or local aid or welfare and who is 
physically or mentally disabled and employed in a program of rehabilitation, who shall receive a wage at a level consis-
tent with his or her health, efficiency, and general well-being;
4. Occupational classification shall mean a classification established by the Dictionary of Occupational Titles prepared by the 
United States Department of Labor; and
5. Wages shall mean all remuneration for personal services, including commissions and bonuses and the cash value of all 
remunerations in any medium other than cash.
Effective January 1, 2016
$9.00 per Hour
For further information regarding the Nebraska Wage and Hour Act,  
contact the Nebraska Department of Labor
Updated: 10/5/2016
Minimum Wage in Nebraska
PHONE 402-471-2239