Easily embed accurate and local minimum wage rates
The Minimum Wage Finder tracks the minimum wage rates across the country by state, city, work or residential address, job type, job function, effective date, and more. Easily embed or integrate employee minimum wage rates into the payroll process.
The Minimum Wage Finder helps companies ensure employees are paid the minimum wage when appropriate, helping to avoid legal issues and fines by remaining compliant. The Minimum Wage Finder uses the same proprietary technology as the Symmetry Tax Engine with leading-edge mapping technology and geospatial boundary maps for jurisdictions.
1Compensation research
Symmetry’s compensation research experts identify all new minimum wage and rate rules.
2Geocoding technology
Our geocoding technology identifies the exact wage requirements using latitude and longitude coordinates.
3Accurate wage rates
The Minimum Wage Finder returns all rates associated with the location in question, giving you accurate wages to stay compliant.
Features
Pinpoint accuracy
Use exact latitude and longitude coordinates for employees’ work addresses to pinpoint the exact minimum wage rates that apply to individual employees. Also returns any exemption thresholds and additional limits.
Historical and future rates
Symmetry’s research team keeps track of past, present, and future wage rate changes. Having access to these wage rates allows you to budget the cost of compensation accurately.
Strategic resource planning
Keep up with minimum wage rate increases ahead of time for your strategic compensation forecasting and hiring projection planning purposes. Insights: Why Every Business Needs a Minimum Wage Finder
Clients
Who will love it?
Wage and compensation professionals who need to stay up-to-date on ever-changing minimum wage rates.
Product managers searching for a way to increase accuracy in wage rates.
Finance professionals looking to budget future minimum wage rate increases across a high volume of employees.
Companies that are looking to forecast their future budgets or locate a business office.
"Symmetry Software had a very detailed integration guide and a phenomenal technical staff that allowed us to get to market much quicker than if we had tried to tackle this on our own."
Will Boudreaux, Founder and CEO at Netchex
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The API is great for HR and payroll software companies looking for the most accurate minimum wage determination for a clients’ employees and for large employers wanting to appropriately set up new employees’ compensation or audit the minimum wage rates of existing employees. Incorporates minimum wage rate data directly into your HR/payroll system or application via JSON.
Directly integrate the Minimum Wage Finder or payroll platform.
Pass multiple work addresses for each employee within the same call.
Receive real time minimum wage results by employee directly in your application via JSON.
"rates":[{"authority_type":"State","state":"California","rate":"55.58","effective_date":"2024-01-01","industry_type":"Computer Professionals","details":"Minimum hourly rate of pay exemption from overtime amount for Computer Professionals",
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},{"authority_type":"Federal","rate":"27.63","effective_date":"2017-01-01","industry_type":"Computer Professionals","details":"Minimum hourly rate of pay exemption from overtime amount for Computer Professionals",
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},
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]
Portal
Ideal for payroll and human resources professionals to identify minimum wage rates for employees with geospatial visualizations. Allows you to confirm wage rates are in compliance as a position is posted or apply rates precisely rather than on expectation. See rates across all industry and job-type categories.
Portal Maps
The Maps interface identifies wage jurisdictions with geospatial visualizations, making it quicker to research complex wage scenarios.
Run a one-at-a-time lookup with an employee’s work address, exact latitude and longitude, or by dragging a pin to an exact location on the map.
The Minimum Wage Finder confirms and displays rates to maintain compliance.
See minimum wages side-by-side with the map and location details.
Portal batch
The batch feature allows corporate users to process a large group of addresses - great for audits of your compensation data and data clean-up in your payroll system.
Save time by running multiple minimum wage rate lookups at once.
Create batches by importing CSV files or by manually adding work and home addresses.
Run thousands of employees in just minutes.
Download standard and custom reports detailing effective date, rate, and more.
FAQ
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What is the Minimum Wage Finder?
The Minimum Wage Finder is a minimum wage rate lookup tool that provides all associated wage rates for a specific work location or locations.
How does the Minimum Wage Finder work?
Users enter a work address or addresses into Symmetry’s Minimum Wage Finder along with a date, which then normalizes and geocodes the addresses and applies the latitude and longitude to our 35,000 geospatial files. Based on the location(s) and date, the Minimum Wage Finder then returns all of the minimum wage rates associated with that location and date.
What information does the Minimum Wage Finder return?
The Minimum Wage Finder returns the minimum wage rates by effective date for the employees’ work address along with the job type, job function, city, and state. For example, it might return the federal and state regular minimum wage, tipped minimum wage, and white-collar exemption thresholds, along with job functions that are exempt (such as computer employee). It also might include any additional information, such as minimums for tips received for tipped employees.
How was the federal minimum wage created?
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 created the minimum wage, after social upheaval about unfair labor and child labor practices across the U.S. Local minimum wage laws at the county and municipal level have gained steam in recent years, setting their own rates, separate from their states.
How does Symmetry identify a change in a minimum wage?
Symmetry identifies changes by receiving information from state and local agencies, outreach during key periods, monitoring industry resources, and through client partnerships.
What tools or resources does Symmetry use in monitoring and identification of a change?
Symmetry leverages state Department of Labor websites, phone calls, and email communication, as well as memberships in the National Payroll Reporting Consortium and PayrollOrg.
How far in advance does Symmetry identify a change in a minimum wage?
Symmetry typically identifies minimum wage changes three to six months before the effective date. In rare situations, an update could be identified within days or a week of the effective date, usually due to the timing of agency decisions.
When a minimum wage change is identified, how soon should we expect to see the updated change?
Upon identification, Symmetry verifies the accuracy and applies updates, which are made immediately available in the product.
How is the minimum wage change communicated?
Updates are communicated through the product release notes, which are provided on a bi-weekly basis.
