Pennsylvania Form No. LLC-1 - Minimum Wage Law Poster and Fact Sheet Mandatory

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Workers shall be paid 	 	
1½ times their regular rate	 	
of pay after 40 hours worked 	 	
in a workweek 	 	
(Except as Described)	
TIPPED EMPLOYEES:	 	
An employer may pay a minimum of $2.83 per hour 
to an employee who makes $135.00 per month in 
tips. The employer must make up the difference 
if the tips and $2.83 do not meet the regular 
Pennsylvania minimum wage.	 	
KEEPING RECORDS:
Every employer must maintain accurate records of 
each employee’s earnings and hours worked, and 
provide access to Labor & Industry.
The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act establishes a fixed Minimum Wage and Overtime 
Rate for employees. It also sets forth compliance-related duties for the Department of Labor 
& Industry and for employers. In addition, the Minimum Wage Act provides penalties for 
noncompliance. This summary is for general information only and is not an official position 
formally adopted by the Department of Labor & Industry.
MINIMUM WAGE LAW SUMMARY	
MUST BE POSTED IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE IN EVERY	 	
PENNSYLVANIA BUSINESS  GOVERNED BY THE MINIMUM WAGE ACT	
$7.25 per hour 	 	
Effective	 	
July 24, 2009
(Except as Described)	
Minimum Wage	 Rate	Overtime	 Rate	
PENALTIES:
Failure to pay the legal minimum wage or other 
violations may result in payment of back wages and 
other civil or criminal action where warranted	.	
EXEMPTIONS:
Overtime applies to certain employment 
classifications. (see pages 2 and 3)	 	
SPECIAL ALLOWANCES FOR:
Students, learners and people with disabilities, upon 
application only.

EXEMPTIONS FROM BOTH	  	
Minimum Wage and Overtime Rates	
 camp for campers under the age of 18 years, 	
which operates for a period of less than three 
months in any one year	
•  	In employment by a public amusement or 
recreational establishment, organized camp, 	 	
or religious or nonprof it educational 
conference center, if (i) it does not operate 
more than seven months a year or (ii) during 
the preceding calendar year, the average 
receipts for any 6 months were not more 	 	
than 33% of its average receipts for the other 	 	
6 months of such year	
•  	Switchboard operator employed by an 
independently-owned public telephone 
company which has no more than 750 stations	
•  	Employees not subject to civil service laws who 
hold elective off ice or are on the personal staff 
of such an off iceholder, are immediate advisers 
to the off iceholder, or are appointed by the 
off iceholder to serve on a policy making level	
•  	Executive, Administrative, and Professional 
employees, as def ined by the Department	
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•  	Labor on a farm	
•  	Domestic service in or about the private home of 
the employer	
•  	Delivery of newspapers to the consumer	
•  	Publication of weekly, semi-weekly or  daily 
newspaper with a circulation of less than 	 	
4,000 when the major portion of circulation 	 	
is in the county where published or a bordering 
county	
•  	Bona fide outside salesman	
•  	Educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit 
organization where no employer-employee 
relationship exists and service is rendered 
gratuitously	
•  	Golf caddy	
•  	In seasonal employment, if the employee is 
under 18 years of age or if a student under 	 	
24 years of age is employed by a nonprof it 
health or welfare agency engaged in activities 
dealing with children with disabilities or by a 
nonprof it day or resident seasonal recreational	
 
Wages paid to any employee may include reasonable cost of board, lodging and other facilities. This may be 
considered as part of the minimum wage if the employee is notified of this condition and accepts it as a usual 
condition of employment at the time of hire or change of classification. The wages, including food credit plus 
tips, must equal the current minimum wage.	
Board:	 Food furnished in the form of meals on an established schedule.	
Lodging:	 Housing facility available for the personal use of the employee at all hours.	
Reasonable Cost: 	Actual cost, exclusive of profit, to the employer or to anyone affiliated with the employer.	
ALLOWANCES

EXCEPTIONS 	f rom Minimum Wage Rates	
EXEMPTIONS 	f rom Overtime Rates	
•  	Learners and students (bona fide high school or 
college), after obtaining a Special Certificate f rom 
the Bureau of Labor Law Compliance, (651 Boas 
Street, Room 1301, Harrisburg, PA 17121-0750) may 
be paid 85% of the minimum wage as follows:	 	 
Learners: 40 hours a week. Maximum eight weeks	 	 
Students: Up to 20 hours a week. Up to 40 hours 
a week during school vacation periods	
•  	Individuals with a physical or mental deficiency 
or injury may be paid less than the applicable 
minimum wage if a license specifying a rate 
commensurate with productive capacity 
is obtained f rom the Bureau of Labor Law 
Compliance, (651 Boas Street, Room 1301, 
Harrisburg, PA 17121-0750), or a federal 
certificate is obtained under Section 14(c) of 
the Fair Labor Standards Act f rom the U.S. 
Department of Labor	
•  	A seaman	
•  	Any salesman, partsman or mechanic primarily 
engaged in selling and servicing automobiles, 
trailers, trucks, farm implements or aircraft, if 
employed by a non-manufacturing establishment 
primarily engaged in the selling of such vehicles 
to ultimate purchasers. (Example: 51% of business 
is selling as opposed to 49% in servicing such 
vehicles)	
•  	Taxicab driver	
•  	Any employee of a motor carrier the Federal 
Secretary of Transportation has power to 
establish qualifications and maximum hours of 
service under 49 U.S.C. Section 3102 (b)(1) and 
(2) (relating to requirements for qualifications, 
hours of service, safety and equipment 
standards)	
•  	Any employee engaged in the processing of 
maple sap into sugar (other than refined sugar) or 
syrup	
•  	Employment by a motion picture theatre	
•  	Announcer, news editor, chief engineer of a radio 
or television station, the major studio of which is 
located in:	
•  City or town of 100,000 population or less, 
if it is not part of a standard metropolitan 
statistical area having a total population in 
excess of 100,000; or 	
•  City or town of 25,000 population or less, 
which is part of such an area but is at least 
40 airline miles f rom the principal city in 
the area	
•  	The hours of an employee of an air carrier subject 
to the provisions of Title II of the Railway Labor 
Act (Public Law 69-257, 44 Stat. 577, 45 U.S.C. § 181 
et seq.) when:	
•  the hours are voluntarily worked by the 
employee pursuant to a shift-trading 
practice under which the employee has 
the opportunity to reduce hours worked 
in any workweek by voluntarily offering a 
shift for trade or reassignment; or	
•  the required hours of work, wages and 
overtime compensation have been 
agreed to either in a collective bargaining 
agreement between the employer and 
labor organization representing employees 
for purposes of collective bargaining or 
pursuant to a voluntary agreement or 
understanding arrived at between the 
employer and employee	
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MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ONLINE
Additional information about the Minimum Wage Act is available online at: 	www.dli.pa.gov	,  	
PA Keyword: Minimum Wage. From the Web site you can submit a complaint form, find answers to 	f requently 	
asked questions	 and read more about the Minimum Wage Act.
 CONTACT:	 COUNTIES SERVED:	
Bureau of Labor Law Compliance	
Altoona District Office	 	
1130 12th Avenue	
Suite 200	
Altoona, PA 16601-3486	
Phone:  	814-940-6224	 or 	877-792-8198	
Armstrong
Bedford
Blair	
Cambria
Cameron
Centre
Clarion
Clearfield	
Clinton	
Elk	
Fayette
Forest
Fulton	
Huntingdon	
Indiana	
Jefferson
McKean
Mifflin
Potter
Somerset
Warren	
Westmoreland	
Bureau of Labor Law Compliance	
Harrisburg District Office
651 Boas Street, Room 1301
Harrisburg, PA 17121-0750	
Phone:  	717-787-4671	 or 	800-932-0665	 	
Adams
Columbia
Cumberland
Dauphin
Franklin
Juniata	
Lancaster 
Lebanon
Montour
Perry
Yo r k	
Bureau of Labor Law Compliance	
Philadelphia District Office	 	
110 North 8th St., Suite 203	
Philadelphia, PA 19107	 	
Phone:  	215-560-1858	 or 	877-817-9497	
Bucks
Chester
Delaware
Montgomery
Philadelphia	
Bureau of Labor Law Compliance	
Pittsburgh District Office	 	
301 5th Avenue, Suite 330	
Pittsburgh, PA 15222	
Phone:  	412-565-5300	 or 	877-504-8354	 	
Allegheny
Beaver
Butler
Crawford	
Erie	
Greene
Lawrence
Mercer
Venango
Washington	
Bureau of Labor Law Compliance	
Scranton District Office	 	
201-B State Office Bldg.	 	
100 Lackawanna Avenue	
Scranton, PA 18503	 	
Phone:  	570-963-4577	 or 	877-214-3962	 	
Berks
Bradford
Carbon	
Lackawanna	
Lehigh
Luzerne
Lycoming	
Monroe	
Northampton
Northumberland	
Pike	
Schuylkill
Snyder
Sullivan	
Susquehanna	
Tioga
Union
Way n e
Wyoming	
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