The minimum wage at any US address

Send a work address and a date. Get back every minimum wage that applies there (federal, state, county and city), the one that governs, the tipped cash wage, other rates for groups like youth or hotel workers, and the next scheduled change. Every number links to the official notice it came from.

Why a state table isn't enough

• Cities and counties set their own rates. 67 do today, most in California and Washington, and most of them change every January 1 or July 1.
• Lines don't follow city names. Some county rates cover only unincorporated areas, Cook County's covers only towns that didn't opt out, and Oregon and New York set different rates by region.
• 2027 brings 58 increases so far, 56 of them on January 1. See the list.

One call

curl "https://bankday.dev/v1/minimum-wage?address=600%204th%20Ave%2C%20Seattle%2C%20WA&date=2027-01-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BANKDAY_KEY"

The response names the governing rate (minimum_wage, governing_jurisdiction), lists each level that applies under rates with its source and the date we checked it, and flags anything that depends on details you didn't send under may_apply. Full response.

Built for

• Scheduling and time tracking: flag a shift or a pay rate below the local minimum before it's published.
• Payroll: check rates for every work location before each payroll, and update ahead of January 1 with the change feed.
• Staffing and shift marketplaces: set the pay floor for each job from its address.
• Hiring platforms and job boards: catch postings that offer less than the local minimum.
• AI assistants: the same lookup as an MCP tool, so an HR agent quotes the right rate instead of last year's.
• Spreadsheets: a MINWAGE function for Google Sheets, one cell per work location.

Coverage

All 53 US states, DC and territories with their own records, 3 state regions, 72 city and county ordinances (including industry rates such as SeaTac's hospitality and transportation rate and Long Beach hotel workers), and every Canadian province and territory. Data starts on 2026-01-01 and includes every change announced so far. Browse it on the minimum wage pages or download the CSV.

Plans

Federal and state rates are on every plan, including Free. City and county rates by name start on Developer. Address and coordinate lookups and the change feed come with Business. Scale adds the full data export.

Need on-prem data, a custom calendar (e.g. your bank's own processing days) or annual invoicing? Talk to us; Enterprise and dataset licences start at $5,000/year (see the minimum wage dataset).

Questions

How do you handle unincorporated areas and towns that opted out?

Addresses and coordinates resolve to a Census county and incorporated place, so a rate that covers only unincorporated county areas (Los Angeles County, King County and others) or a county ordinance that some towns opted out of (Cook County) applies only where it should.

What happens when a rate isn't announced yet?

Many cities set next year's amount in the fall from inflation figures. Until the amount is published, the API lists the change under pending_changes with its date, and the governing rate stays the current one. We add the amount as soon as the city or state publishes it.

How do you keep it right?

Every rate comes from the official notice or ordinance and carries its source URL. A script refetches each source and checks that the quoted sentence and the number are still there, with extra passes before January 1 and July 1, when most changes take effect.

Is this legal advice?

No. It's data with sources, so your team can check any figure in one click. Some ordinances have exceptions (training wages, certain nonprofits, some industries) that the response lists under other_rates or the coverage text.

Keep rates in your own system or publish them? The dataset licence delivers the same data as CSV and JSON. Questions? Write to the founder at ryanhalper@bankday.dev.