New Mexico Minimum Wage Summary Poster Required

MINIMUM WAGE	 IN 	NEW MEXICO	 	
$7.50 	per	 hour	 	
 	 	 
OVERTIME PAY	 	At least 1	½ times your regular hourly rate of pay for all hours 	
worked over 40 in a workweek.   	 	
 
TIPPED WORKERS	 	Employers must pay 	tipped employees 	an hourly rate	 of at least 	
$2.13 per hour. 	If the tips plus the 	hourly rate	 do not equal at 	
least $7.50 per hour, the employer must make up the difference. 
Tipped e	mployee	s have a right to keep all	 of 	their tips.	 	
 
DAMAGES	 	Employers who violate the minimum wage or overtime 
requirements are required to pay impacted employees the full 
amount of their underp	aid wages plus interest, plus 	an 	
additional amount equal to twice 	the	 underpaid wages.	 	
 
RETALIATION	  	It is unlawful to retaliate against an employee for asserting a 	 	
PROHIBITED 	 	wage claim or for informing other employees of their rights. 	 	
 
ENFORCEMENT	 	The Labor Relations Division 	of the Department of Workforce 	
Solutions investigates claims and 	recover	s back wages for 	
employees who have been underpaid in violation of law	, 	
regardless of the dollar value of the claim, going back at least 
three years, or longer if there was a continuing course of 
conduct	. Violations may result in civil or criminal action. 	 	
 
LOCAL MINIMUM 	 	There are	 higher minimum wages	 in	 the City of 	Albuquerque, 	 	
WAGES 	 	Bernalillo 	County, 	the City of 	Las Cruces, the City of Santa Fe, 	
and Santa Fe County.	 	
 
ADDITIONAL	 	 	Certain jobs or employers are exempt from the minimum wage	 	
INFORMATION	 	or o	vertime pay provisions. 	 	
E	mployers 	must	 display this poster where employees can 	easily	 see it.	 	
 	
For more 	info	rmation	 or to file a 	wage 	claim, 	contact	 the Labor Relations 	
Division at 	505	-841	-4400, or online at 	www.dws.state.nm.us	 	
 	
 	
N	EW 	M	EXICO	 M	INIMUM	 W	AGE	 A	CT	 	
EMPLOYEE RIGHTS