HITip credit permitted
Hawaii tipped minimum wage 2026
The Hawaii tipped cash wage is $14.75 per hour. Employers may take a tip credit of up to $1.25 per hour, provided the worker's cash wage plus tips reaches the state minimum of $16.00 per hour for every workweek. [DOL Tipped][HI labor dept.]
Cash wage and tip credit
Cash $14.75Credit $1.25Combined $16.00
When tips fall short
If a worker's cash wage plus reported tips do not average to the Hawaii minimum of $16.00 per hour over a workweek, the employer must pay the shortfall. The Tip Credit Checker tool runs the math at /tools/tip-credit. Under the 2021 DOL final rule, time spent on non-tip-producing work above 20 percent of the shift (or 30 continuous minutes) must be paid at the full minimum, not the tip-credited rate. [DOL FS-15]
Background
Hawaii legislates each step in HRS 387-2 rather than indexing.