Changelog

Second wave of the 'Where an unpaid overtime claim goes' block: Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Virginia. Deadlines range from 180 days in Montana and one year in Delaware and Iowa to three years in South Carolina. Four of the ten have no state overtime law at all, and South Carolina's agency can investigate but cannot make an employer pay. Twenty of the 51 overtime pages now carry the block.

Added a 'Where an unpaid overtime claim goes' block to ten state pages — Alabama, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. Each names the agency that takes the claim and the deadline that agency publishes: 180 days in Texas, one year in Illinois, two years in Oklahoma, Vermont and Wisconsin, three in Pennsylvania and Washington, six in New Jersey. Alabama and Mississippi have no state route at all, so the block says so and points to the federal one.

Overtime guides added for Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Each state's rules were re-checked against its statute, administrative code or labor department: Maine's 80-hour cap on mandatory overtime, Maryland's 48- and 60-hour thresholds, Kansas's 46-hour state rule, Hawaii's $4,000 monthly exclusion, West Virginia's six-employee test and Wisconsin's day-of-rest rule.

Added Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, Kentucky, Arizona, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Alabama, Michigan and Indiana. Michigan was released after MCL 408.475 was finally read in full: it sets no fixed number of days for either quits or discharges, and its only hard deadline (3 days) covers hand harvesting of crops. Florida and Georgia pages now carry verified state facts — Florida's constitutional minimum wage and its 15-day pre-suit notice, Georgia's $5.15 rate and its coverage exemptions.

Overtime guides added for Arizona, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Alabama, Michigan and Indiana. Each state's rules were checked against its statute or labor department: Massachusetts's state-only exemption list and the retail Sunday premium that ended on 1 January 2023, Michigan's 2025-2027 minimum wage schedule and Earned Sick Time Act, Arizona's paid sick time accrual, Tennessee's scheduled-six-hours meal break, Indiana's removal of the break rule for minors, and the Alabama overtime income tax exemption that expired on 30 June 2025.

Added the last eleven states — Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho — completing all 50 states and DC. Idaho was released after its statutes were finally read from archived copies of the official pages. Arkansas is recorded from the 2019 rewrite of § 11-4-405, not the repealed railroad text still circulating in older copies.

Overtime guides added for the last eleven states — Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho — completing all 50 states and DC. Rhode Island's Sunday and holiday premium for retail was confirmed still in force, unlike the Massachusetts version repealed in 2023, along with the rule that those premium hours are excluded from the weekly overtime calculation.

Added Maine, Delaware, West Virginia, Connecticut, South Dakota, Hawaii, Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Missouri, Louisiana and Wisconsin — each quoted from its statute text or its state labor agency. Indiana and Idaho withheld: their official statute sites could not be read.

Added Washington, Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Montana, Vermont and Oregon — each checked against its statute text or its state labor agency's own guidance. Overtime guides added for Oregon, Washington, the District of Columbia, Montana and Vermont.

Initial overtime dataset: 50 states and DC verified against the US DOL Wage and Hour Division State Minimum Wage Laws table (updated 1 July 2026). Nevada cross-checked against the Labor Commissioner's daily overtime bulletin (NRS 608.018); California against Labor Code 510.

Initial final paycheck dataset: California, Texas, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, New Jersey, Florida and Georgia, each traced to its own statute or state labor agency. Michigan withheld: its statute has two conflicting readings.