29 U.S.C. § 206
Minimum wage
United States · Title 29 — LABOR · Status: effective
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- 29 U.S.C. § 206, Minimum wage, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/465800
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Every employer shall pay to each of his employees who in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, wages at the following rates:
except as otherwise provided in this section, not less than—
Every employer shall pay to each of his employees (other than an employee to whom subsection (a)(5) 11 See References in Text note below. applies) who in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, and who in such workweek is brought within the purview of this section by the amendments made to this chapter by the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966, title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 [20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.], or the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974, wages at the following rate: Effective after December 31, 1977, not less than the minimum wage rate in effect under subsection (a)(1).
Any employee—
who in any workweek—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1977House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: 89–8
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: 87–7
- Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996
- U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007House: 348–73Senate: no recorded tally
- PROMESAHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally