Maine tipped minimum wage 2026
The Maine tipped cash wage is $7.33 per hour. Employers may take a tip credit of up to $7.32 per hour, provided the worker's cash wage plus tips reaches the state minimum of $14.65 per hour for every workweek. [DOL Tipped][ME labor dept.]
Cash wage and tip credit
When tips fall short
If a worker's cash wage plus reported tips do not average to the Maine minimum of $14.65 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
Indexed annually under 26 M.R.S. section 664 (1)(D) to the CPI-U for the Northeast Region. Service-employee tipped cash wage is half the state rate. Portland and Rockland set higher local rates.