2006-10-24 08:22:08 · 5 answers · asked by Camille 4 in Business & Finance ➔ Personal Finance
It is higher in Santa Fe, per a city ordinance, and it is expected to rise in Albuquerque too. I believe it is expected to be $7.25
2006-10-24 18:35:06 · answer #1 · answered by MagicalMke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SECTION 50-4-22 MINIMUM WAGES.
A. An employer, except as provided in Section 50-4-21. NMSA 1978, shall pay the minimum wage rate of five dollars fifteen cents ($5.15) an hour, except that an employer furnishing food, utilities, supplies or housing to an employee who is engaged in agriculture may deduct the reasonable value of such furnished items from any wages due to the employee.
B. An employee subject to Subsection A of this section who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) a month in tips shall be paid a minimum hourly wage of two dollars thirteen cents ($2.13). The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the tips combined with the employer’s cash wage shall not equal less than five dollars sixty cents ($5.60) per hour. All tips received by such employees shall be retained by the employee except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the pooling of tips among employees.
C. No employee covered by the provisions of Subsection A of this section shall be required to work more than forty hours in any week of seven days, unless he is paid one and one half times his regular hourly rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of forty hours.
2006-10-24 15:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by slimshady3in 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By statute, 5.15 an hour; in reality, about a dollar an hour, for undocumented manual labor.
2006-10-24 15:24:51 · answer #3 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends if they are legal immigrants or not!! LMAO!!!
2006-10-24 15:27:39 · answer #4 · answered by Paul V 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$5.60
2006-10-24 15:29:57 · answer #5 · answered by xlady_elyriax 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋