Maine tipped minimum wage 2026
The Maine tipped cash wage is $7.55 per hour. Employers may take a tip credit of up to $7.55 per hour, provided the worker's cash wage plus tips reaches the state minimum of $15.10 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 $15.10 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
DOL: Adjusted annually Warning: maine.gov/labor/labor_laws/minimum_wage_faq.html is stale, its table stops at 1 January 2023. Do not source Maine from it. Not published. The Maine Department of Labor news listing was current to 24 August 2026 with no 2027 announcement; the August consumer-price input has only just become available.