## US-AK wage and backpay rules

This source-backed guide covers US-AK wage backpay authority (Alaska Stat. §§ 23.10.060, 23.10.065). It certifies only the quoted Oregon wage, overtime, final-wages, penalty-wage, and interest rules listed below; special exemptions and calculator corner cases remain outside certification unless a quoted source says otherwise.

## Alaska Stat. §§ 23.10.060, 23.10.065

US-AK wage backpay controlling authority under Alaska Stat. §§ 23.10.060, 23.10.065.

> **23.10.060.** overtime compensation for the overtime at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate of pay shall be paid. An employee is entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked in excess of eight hours a day. An employee is also entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked in excess of 40 hours a week

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## Sources

- [23.10.060 — Alaska Stat. §§ 23.10.060, 23.10.065](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?title=23&chapter=10&media=print&type=fetch&secStart=23.10.050&secEnd=23.10.110#23.10.060)

All sources are official primary law published by `www.akleg.gov`.

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How to calculate Wage Backpay in Alaska using DocketMath and jurisdiction-aware rules.

How to calculate Wage Backpay in Alaska

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Verified against the Alaska Legislature print/fetch endpoint and the Alaska Department of Labor wage-hour page. Alaska pays overtime after 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week, whichever yields the overtime hours, and requires 1.5x pay under AS 23.10.060. AS 23.10.065 is the minimum-wage statute, not an overtime-exemption section; it sets the current $13.00 minimum wage effective 2025-07-01, raises it to $14.00 on 2026-07-01 and to $15.00 on 2027-07-01, and does not allow a tip credit. AS 23.10.100 is the real recordkeeping section. The shipped file's old `legis.state.ak.us/basis/aac.asp?...` URLs were wrong-code / wrong-host citations.

Verified Alaska wage-hour remedies from primary state sources: AS 23.10.110 provides unpaid wages or overtime plus an additional equal amount as liquidated damages, with a clear-and-convincing good-faith defense for overtime liquidated damages, and AS 23.10.130 sets a 2-year state limitations period. Verified Alaska employment-discrimination relief from AS 18.80.130: the commission may award back pay and front pay subject to mitigation, and subsection (f) sends interest to AS 09.30.070's variable judgment-interest formula rather than a fixed 4 percent rate. The official Alaska State Commission for Human Rights complaint-process page states that complaints must be drafted, notarized, and filed within 300 days of the alleged discriminatory act. The `backpay_sol_years_willful` value remains 3 because willful FLSA claims can still use the federal 3-year period under 29 U.S.C. § 255(a).

overtime compensation for the overtime at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate of pay shall be paid. An employee is entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked in excess of eight hours a day. An employee is also entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked in excess of 40 hours a week

beginning July 1, 2025, the minimum wage shall be $13.00 per hour; effective July 1, 2026, the minimum wage shall be $14.00 per hour; effective July 1, 2027, the minimum wage shall be $15.00 per hour

An employer shall keep for a period of at least three years at the place where an employee is employed a record of the name, address, and occupation of each employee, the rate of pay and the amount paid each pay period to each employee, the hours worked each day and each workweek by each employee, and other payroll information that the commissioner may require.

the commission may order any appropriate relief, including one or more of the following: training of an employer, labor organization, or employment agency, and its employees concerning discriminatory practices; an accommodation for a person with a disability; removal of or changes to a personnel record; posting of signs; back pay; the hiring, reinstatement, or upgrading of an employee with or without back pay; the payment of front pay for a period of not more than one year if hiring, reinstatement, or upgrading of an employee is inappropriate because a vacancy does not exist, the employer's discriminatory practice rendered the employee incapable of returning to work, or the relationship between the employer and employee has so deteriorated as to make working conditions intolerable; restoration to membership in a labor organization; admission to or participation in an apprenticeship training program, on-the-job training program, or other retraining program; or restoration of seniority; however, an order for back pay or front pay must be reduced by the amount the employee could have earned or could earn by making reasonably diligent efforts to obtain similar employment

The interest rate for an award under this section is determined in the manner provided in AS 09.30.070.

the rate of interest on judgments and decrees for the payment of money, including prejudgment interest, is three percentage points above the 12th Federal Reserve District discount rate in effect on January 2 of the year in which the judgment or decree is entered

You must have your complaint drafted, notarized, and filed with the Commission within 300 days of the alleged discriminatory act.

wage backpay in US-AK is governed by Alaska Stat. §§ 23.10.060, 23.10.065.