Rhode Island minimum wage 2026

Rhode Island minimum wage per day, week, month and year

With a tip credit, your employer can pay you $3.89 an hour, but your wages plus tips have to reach $16.00 for every hour you work that week: $640.00 for a 40-hour week.

Will Rhode Island’s minimum wage go up in 2027?

Yes. On January 1, 2027, it rises to $17.00 an hour; the tipped cash wage stays at $3.89.

How the tip credit works in Rhode Island

Employers in Rhode Island can pay tipped workers $3.89 an hour as long as your wages plus tips for the workweek come to at least $16.00 for every hour worked. If they don’t, the employer has to pay the difference.

For example, 30 hours at $3.89 comes to $116.70. With $100.00 in tips, you’d have $216.70. The minimum for 30 hours is $480.00, so your employer owes you $263.30.

Try it with your own numbers.

Overtime

Under federal law, hours over 40 in a workweek are paid at time and a half (1.5 times your regular rate): at Rhode Island’s minimum, at least $24.00 an hour. Rhode Island has no daily overtime: a 12-hour double only gets you overtime if it takes your week past 40 hours.

With a tip credit, your employer still has to pay you at least $11.89 in cash wages for each overtime hour: $24.00 minus the $12.11 tip credit. How overtime works with tips.

PayJar applies weekly overtime from the start and lets you turn on daily overtime and double time. Add up your week’s hours and overtime in the time card calculator.