Current Minimum Wage
Ohio minimum wage$11.00since January 1, 2026

State minimum wage

Ohio minimum wage

$11.00 an hour as of September 2, 2026. Tipped cash wage $5.50.

  • The Ohio minimum wage is $11.00 an hour, set by state law effective .
  • The next change is on : an indexed adjustment, amount to be announced.
  • Tipped employees must be paid at least $5.50 in cash, with a tip credit of up to $5.50.
  • A youth or training wage of $7.25 applies: Employees under 16 years of age may be paid not less than the federal FLSA minimum wage (Ohio Const. Art. II Sec. 34a)..
  • At $11.00 an hour, full-time work (2,080 hours) pays $22,880 a year before taxes.
  • Ohio law bars cities and counties from setting their own minimum wage.

Tipped cash wage

$5.50
Tip credit up to $5.50

Youth / training

$7.25
Employees under 16 years of age may be paid not less than the federal FLSA minimum wage (Ohio Const. Art. II Sec. 34a).

Next change

Indexed, TBA
· indexed-unannounced

Local rates

Preempted
ORC 4111.02: 'No political subdivision shall establish a minimum wage rate different from the wage rate required under this section.'

Scheduled increases in Ohio

January 1, 20271 jurisdiction
StateTBA
Ohioindexed-unannounced · On September 30 each year the rate is increased effective the following January 1 by the CPI-W inflation rate for the prior 12 months, rounded to...
TBAindexed, amount to be announced

Rate tiers

TierRateRule
Small employers (annual gross receipts of $405,000 or less in 2026)$7.25Federal minimum wage applies; constitutional base of $250,000 (2007) indexed annually to the nearest $1,000.
Employees under 16$7.25Federal minimum wage applies.

Coverage, exemptions, and history

Who is covered. Non-tipped employees of employers with annual gross receipts over $405,000 (2026 threshold per DOL table). Employers at or below the threshold, and employees....

Tipped employees. Constitution: employer may pay not less than half the minimum wage if tips plus wages equal or exceed the minimum wage. $5.50 is half of $11.00 (the agency's 2026 poster could not be read).

Indexing. Adjusted by CPI-W (consumer price index for all urban wage earners and clerical workers), 12 months... on January 1 annually ; announced Ohio Department of Commerce....

Recent history. Constitutional amendment (2006) set $6.85 on 2007-01-01 with annual CPI-W indexing; NCSL: indexed increases began 2007.

The Ohio Department of Commerce web pages for the Bureau of Wage and Hour and the 2026 minimum wage poster returned a generic portal shell with no content (soft 404) to every fetch method tried; the agency URL above was not read. Rates rest on the...

Statute. Ohio Const.

Common questions

What is the minimum wage in Ohio?

$11.00 an hour as of September 2, 2026, under state law effective January 1, 2026.

When does the Ohio minimum wage go up next?

On January 1, 2027, by an indexed amount the agency will announce.

What is the tipped minimum wage in Ohio?

$5.50 in cash plus tips; the employer must make up any shortfall to $11.00.

Do any cities in Ohio have a higher minimum wage?

No. State law preempts local minimum wage ordinances.

Sources

  1. https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/laws/ohio-constitution/section?const=2.34a official
  2. https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4111.02 official
  3. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/state official
  4. https://com.ohio.gov/divisions-and-programs/industrial-compliance/bureau-of-wage-and-hour official
  5. https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wages

Checked 2026-09-02 against Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Industrial Compliance, Bureau of Wage and Hour; researcher confidence 0.85.