Current Minimum Wage
New Hampshire minimum wage$7.25since July 24, 2009

State minimum wage

New Hampshire minimum wage

$7.25 an hour as of September 2, 2026. Tipped cash wage $3.27.

  • The New Hampshire minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, set by state law effective .
  • No increase is currently scheduled in New Hampshire.
  • Tipped employees must be paid at least $3.27 in cash, with a tip credit of up to $3.98.
  • At $7.25 an hour, full-time work (2,080 hours) pays $15,080 a year before taxes.

Tipped cash wage

$3.27
Tip credit up to $3.98

Youth / training

None
RSA 279:21 allows 75 percent of the applicable minimum for persons with under 6 months of experience in an occupation and for employees 16 years of age and under (per statute summary); dollar figure...

Next change

None scheduled
Set by statute; no indexing

Local rates

None found
Not verified.

Coverage, exemptions, and history

Who is covered. All employees not exempted under RSA 279:21; the state rate is the federal minimum wage by reference ('no person, firm, or corporation shall employ any....

Tipped employees. Tipped employees of restaurants, hotels, motels, inns, cabins, ballrooms and cigar bars who regularly receive more than $30/month in tips: base rate not less than 45 percent of the applicable...

Recent history. New Hampshire's minimum wage equals the federal rate whenever the state figure is below it (DOL); no state increase is scheduled.

The NH DOL web pages (nh.gov/labor) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetches and have no Wayback snapshot; the agency URL above was not read. Facts rest on the statute plus DOL/NCSL.

Statute. N.H.

Common questions

What is the minimum wage in New Hampshire?

$7.25 an hour as of September 2, 2026, under state law effective July 24, 2009.

When does the New Hampshire minimum wage go up next?

No increase is scheduled.

What is the tipped minimum wage in New Hampshire?

$3.27 in cash plus tips; the employer must make up any shortfall to $7.25.

Do any cities in New Hampshire have a higher minimum wage?

None were found in effect.

Sources

  1. https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXIII/279/279-21.htm official
  2. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/state official
  3. https://www.nh.gov/labor/inspection/minimum-wage.htm official
  4. https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wages

Checked 2026-09-02 against New Hampshire Department of Labor; researcher confidence 0.75.