US state payday-requirement rules intelligence (annual)
Annual US payroll-cadence compliance panel from the keyless U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division 'State Payday Requirements' table (revision 2023-01-01; transcribed and verified 2026-09-30): one row per jurisdiction (50 states + District of Columbia + Puerto Rico). Each row carries the frequency boxes checked in the DOL table (weekly / bi-weekly / semi-monthly / monthly) with the footnote numbers behind them, the derived strictest required frequency (the most frequent checked box — the statutory floor; rule-derived semimonthly for Montana via footnote 13, explicit nulls for the six states with no frequency regulation), minimum payments per year, a conservative maximum interval between paydays in days, three exception flags (employee-class, commissioner-approval, sector-limited scope), a documented 0-100 restrictiveness index (100 = weekly, 0 = monthly, linear in the maximum legal inter-payday interval), and a human-readable rule note. Method: jurisdiction names entity-resolved to USPS codes + 2-digit FIPS through a closed map; the 25 DOL footnotes transcribed verbatim as the audit trail; frequency boxes classified into a canonical strictest frequency; unregulated states keep nulls, never zeros. Caveats: the DOL table is a summary last revised 2023-01-01 and states amend statutes — re-verified annually; what each 'X' means varies by state (see the footnotes); confirm against the relevant state labor office before acting on it. U.S. federal public domain (commercial reuse allowed with attribution to the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division).
- Rows
- 52
- Columns
- 24
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 30, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| state | string | Canonical jurisdiction name ('California', 'District of Columbia', 'Puerto Rico'). |
| state_code | string | USPS jurisdiction abbreviation ('CA'); the region join key. |
| fips | string | Two-digit FIPS jurisdiction code ('06'). |
| country_code | string | ISO alpha-3 country code: USA for the 50 states + DC, PRI for Puerto Rico. (unit: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3) |
| required_frequencies | string | Comma-joined frequencies whose box is checked in the DOL table for this jurisdiction (subset of weekly,biweekly,semimonthly,monthly); empty for unregulated jurisdictions. |
| required_weekly | integer | 1 when the DOL table checks the Weekly box for this jurisdiction. |
| required_biweekly | integer | 1 when the DOL table checks the Bi-weekly box for this jurisdiction. |
| required_semimonthly | integer | 1 when the DOL table checks the Semi-monthly box for this jurisdiction. |
| required_monthly | integer | 1 when the DOL table checks the Monthly box for this jurisdiction. |
| footnotes | string | Comma-joined DOL footnote numbers attached to this jurisdiction's state-name cell or X cells ('' when none); the full footnote texts are transcribed in the connector module as the audit trail. |
| frequency_regulated | integer | 1 when the state regulates pay frequency (or Montana's rule-derived default applies); 0 for the six jurisdictions with no frequency rule (AL, FL, NE, NC, PA, SC). |
| strictest_frequency | string | The statutory frequency floor: the most frequent box checked in the DOL table (weekly|biweekly|semimonthly|monthly). 'semimonthly' rule-derived for Montana (footnote 13 presumption); null for unregulated jurisdictions. |
| min_payments_per_year | float | Minimum paydays per year implied by the strictest frequency: weekly=52, biweekly=26, semimonthly=24, monthly=12; null when unregulated. (unit: paydays/year) |
| max_interval_days | float | Conservative maximum legal interval between paydays in days: weekly=7, biweekly=14, semimonthly=16 (Arizona's statutory 16-day ceiling), monthly=31 (the 31-day ceiling in the Minnesota and Wisconsin statutes); null when unregulated. (unit: days) |
| employee_class_exceptions | integer | 1 when a footnote grants different frequencies by employee class or occupation (e.g. monthly for executive/administrative/professional staff, hourly vs salaried rules). |
| approval_based_exceptions | integer | 1 when a footnote lets the labor commissioner, director or department approve a longer pay interval. |
| sector_limited_scope | integer | 1 when the frequency rule applies only to specific sectors (Louisiana and Mississippi: manufacturing, mining, public service corporations). |
| restrictiveness_index | float | Documented 0-100 payroll-cadence restrictiveness gauge: 100 * (31 - max_interval_days) / 24, so weekly=100, biweekly=70.8, semimonthly=62.5, monthly=0; null when unregulated. Higher = the state forces more frequent paydays. A relative gauge, not a legal conclusion. (unit: 0-100 index) |
| rule_note | string | Human-readable one-line summary of the jurisdiction's pay-frequency rule with footnote references. |
| as_of | string | Build date of the panel (ISO date). (unit: ISO date) |
| table_revision | string | Revision date printed on the DOL table ('This document was last revised January 1, 2023'). (unit: ISO date) |
| verified_date | string | Date the transcription was verified against the live DOL page (ISO date). (unit: ISO date) |
| source_url | string | The DOL 'State Payday Requirements' page behind every row (provenance). |
| row_hash | string | Deterministic 16-hex row identity: sha256('DOL-PAYDAY|<state_code>'). |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| state | state_code | fips | country_code | required_frequencies | required_weekly | required_biweekly | required_semimonthly | required_monthly | footnotes | frequency_regulated | strictest_frequency | min_payments_per_year | max_interval_days | employee_class_exceptions | approval_based_exceptions | sector_limited_scope | restrictiveness_index | rule_note | as_of | table_revision | verified_date | source_url | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | AK | 02 | USA | semimonthly,monthly | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | semimonthly | 24 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62.5 | Minimum semimonthly pay frequency (24 payments/year; most frequent box checked in the DOL table) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | 73c562397f4d43eb |
| Alabama | AL | 01 | USA | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | No state payday-frequency regulation (footnote 1) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | 908ddc6f002d22a4 |
| Arkansas | AR | 05 | USA | semimonthly | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | semimonthly | 24 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62.5 | Minimum semimonthly pay frequency (24 payments/year; most frequent box checked in the DOL table) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | 9f6fbffe2c6ca07f |
| Arizona | AZ | 04 | USA | semimonthly | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | semimonthly | 24 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62.5 | Minimum semimonthly pay frequency (24 payments/year; most frequent box checked in the DOL table) (footnote 3) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | 00e534b3136e52fa |
| California | CA | 06 | USA | weekly,biweekly,semimonthly,monthly | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | weekly | 52 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | Minimum weekly pay frequency (52 payments/year; most frequent box checked in the DOL table) (footnote 10) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | 78eb18c012895c50 |
| Colorado | CO | 08 | USA | monthly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | monthly | 12 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Minimum monthly pay frequency (12 payments/year; most frequent box checked in the DOL table) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | e63e64e9940d71cf |
| Connecticut | CT | 09 | USA | weekly | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | weekly | 52 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100 | Minimum weekly pay frequency (52 payments/year; most frequent box checked in the DOL table) (footnote 4) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | 00fd5cd901d4915c |
| District of Columbia | DC | 11 | USA | semimonthly | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | semimonthly | 24 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62.5 | Minimum semimonthly pay frequency (24 payments/year; most frequent box checked in the DOL table) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | 7f865d89c0523507 |
| Delaware | DE | 10 | USA | monthly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | monthly | 12 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Minimum monthly pay frequency (12 payments/year; most frequent box checked in the DOL table) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | 8b6b493c742ca2e8 |
| Florida | FL | 12 | USA | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | No state payday-frequency regulation (footnote 1) | 2026-09-30 | 2023-01-01 | 2026-09-30 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/payday | b8816c260102360c |
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title = {{US state payday-requirement rules intelligence (annual)}},
author = {{U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
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