I spent two decades building workforce management systems, and the same rules kept tripping everyone up: overtime, breaks, split-shift premiums, fair workweek, paid sick leave, child-labor limits. This is my running reference for all of them, state by state, kept current instead of frozen on the day it was published.
Every compliance tracker will quote you the law. This one starts where the law hits the schedule: the daily-overtime threshold, the meal-break window, the predictability-pay trigger your system has to enforce in code. Rates and ordinances move constantly, so every value here carries the date it was last checked against the source.
Every jurisdiction is split into the things that change how a shift gets built and paid: daily and weekly OT, double time, meal and rest breaks, split-shift premiums, fair workweek, sick leave, and child-labor hour limits.
I cross-checked the base data against DOL, EPI, the Littler Fair Workweek tracker, and A Better Balance. That's 260 cell-level checks, 253 of them clean. See the scorecard.
A check runs on the 1st and 15th against about 25 source pages and flags any rate change or new ordinance. It watches January 1 and July 1 closely, since that's when most wage increases land.
State minimum wage (with notable local rates) and tipped cash wage, including no-tip-credit states.
Weekly OT everywhere, plus the handful of states with daily OT and California's double-time rules.
Adult mandates, paid vs. unpaid, shift-length triggers, and minor-only rules.
Direct mandates (CA, DC) and spread-of-hours equivalents (NY).
Oregon statewide plus every city/county ordinance: advance schedule notice, predictability pay, and clopening rest between shifts.
Show-up pay when a shift is cut short, and one-day-rest-in-seven limits on consecutive days.
Statewide sick-leave mandates and minor hour-limit rules by age band.