Rhode Island Payroll Information

Rhode Island 2025 Minimum Wage: 

• $15.00 per hour
• $3.89 per hour for tipped employees
  
  

Rhode Island Overtime Rules: 

• 1.5 x’s the regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek
• Hours worked on Sundays and holidays must be paid at time and a half
  
  

Rhode Island Paystub Requirements:

On every regular payday, an employer must furnish to employees the following:

• A statement of the hours worked by that employee during the applicable pay period, except for employees described in Rhode Island Stat. 28-12-4.3;
• A record of all deductions made from that employee’s gross earnings during the pay period together with an explanation of the basis or reason for the deductions; and
• For employers engaged only in the commercial construction industry, a record of the employee’s hourly regular rate of pay. A “commercial construction industry” includes a business which engages in the doing of work or the furnishing of materials, or both, in the building, erection, alteration, or preparation of an improvement on commercial real property.
  
  

How often do you have to pay employees in Rhode Island?

• Employees must be paid weekly unless they are paid a fixed bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly or yearly rate.
  
  

When is an employee’s final check due in Rhode Island?

• Voluntary resignation – wages are due by the next regular payday.
• Involuntary termination – wages are due by the next regular payday.