## US-AR wage and backpay rules

This source-backed guide covers US-AR wage backpay authority (Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing, Minimum Wage and Overtime; 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1)). 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.

## Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing, Minimum Wage and Overtime; 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1)

US-AR wage backpay controlling authority under Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing, Minimum Wage and Overtime; 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1).

> **207(a)(1).** In most cases, an employer has to pay overtime (one and one-half times the regular rate of pay) to non-exempt employees for all hours actually worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek.

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## Sources

- [207(a)(1) — Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing, Minimum Wage and Overtime; 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1)](https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/labor/labor-standards/minimum-wage-and-overtime/)

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

**Corroboration method:** government_primary_source_direct_fetch.


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

How to calculate Wage Backpay in Arkansas

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Verified Arkansas wage-floor and overtime basics against the official Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing minimum-wage page and the official 2018 Initiated Act Issue 5 PDF linked there. The shipped file's Justia-backed Arkansas Code citations were not accepted because the official Arkansas code remains routed through a legislature-linked Lexis gateway that did not expose stable section-level primary URLs in this environment. The official Arkansas labor page confirms that the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act covers employers with 4 or more employees, that the current minimum wage is $11.00 effective 2021-01-01, that tipped employees must be paid at least $2.63 per hour, and that overtime is paid at one and one-half times the regular rate only for hours actually worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. The shipped daily-overtime subsection was fabricated; the official Arkansas labor page expressly says employees may work more than 8 hours in a day and still not exceed 40 hours of actual work in a workweek.

The shipped title-vii block was fabricated wholesale: it cited Family and Medical Leave Act § 2617 instead of Title VII or Arkansas wage/discrimination law. Replaced that block with verified federal employment-discrimination and wage-remedy authorities. FLSA § 216(b) provides unpaid wages or overtime plus an additional equal amount as liquidated damages and a reasonable attorney's fee; § 255(a) sets a 2-year limitations period extended to 3 years for willful violations; and § 260 provides the good-faith / reasonable-grounds defense. For discrimination backpay, Arkansas uses the federal 180-day EEOC charge window under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(e)(1), the 2-year backpay cap and mitigation rule under § 2000e-5(g)(1), and federal post-judgment interest under 28 U.S.C. § 1961(a). Because the official Arkansas Code text remained inaccessible behind the legislature-linked Lexis gateway in this environment, unverified Arkansas-specific liquidated-damages and limitations claims were removed rather than carried forward.

In most cases, an employer has to pay overtime (one and one-half times the regular rate of pay) to non-exempt employees for all hours actually worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek.

Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum wage in Arkansas is $11.00 per hour. The Arkansas Minimum Wage Act covers employers with 4 or more employees.

This means that you may work more than 8 hours in a day or work more than a regularly scheduled shift, and still not exceed 40 hours of actual work in a workweek.

Tipped employees must be paid at least $2.63 per hour.

Back pay liability shall not accrue from a date more than two years prior to the filing of a charge with the Commission. Interim earnings or amounts earnable with reasonable diligence by the person or persons discriminated against shall operate to reduce the back pay otherwise allowable.

A charge under this section shall be filed within one hundred and eighty days after the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred

Interest shall be allowed on any money judgment in a civil case recovered in a district court.

wage backpay in US-AR is governed by Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing, Minimum Wage and Overtime; 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1).