What is the minimum wage in Nashville?

Tennessee has no state minimum wage law, so the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour applies in Nashville. There is no separate higher city minimum, so $7.25 is the floor for most non-tipped workers.

How does overtime work?

Under federal law, non-exempt employees earn 1.5 times their regular rate for every hour worked beyond 40 in a workweek. At the $7.25 minimum that is $10.875 per overtime hour.

How are tipped workers paid?

Employers may pay a cash wage of $2.13 per hour and claim a tip credit, as long as cash wage plus tips reaches at least $7.25 per hour. If tips fall short, the employer must make up the difference.

Does Nashville have a higher local minimum wage?

No. Tennessee preempts local minimum wage ordinances, so Nashville cannot set its own higher rate. The federal $7.25 floor applies citywide.

Is overtime based on daily or weekly hours?

Federal overtime is weekly, not daily. Only hours beyond 40 in a single workweek count as overtime, regardless of how they are spread across days.

Nashville Minimum Wage & Overtime Calculator

This calculator works out weekly gross pay for hourly workers in Nashville. It defaults to Tennessee’s effective minimum wage — the federal $7.25 per hour — and applies federal overtime rules for any hours over 40 in a week.

How it works

The tool separates the week into regular and overtime hours and pays overtime at one and a half times the base rate:

regular hours  = min(hours, 40)
overtime hours = max(hours − 40, 0)
gross pay      = regular × rate + overtime × rate × 1.5

For tipped workers, the employer may pay a $2.13 cash wage and claim a tip credit. The law still guarantees the full minimum, so the tool checks the floor:

effective hourly = cash wage + (tips / hours)
must be at least $7.25; if short, employer tops it up

Example and notes

A worker logging 45 hours at $7.25 earns 40 regular hours of pay plus 5 overtime hours at $10.875, for a weekly gross of about $344.38. In tipped mode, a server paid $2.13 cash who earns enough tips to clear $7.25 per hour keeps the higher total; if tips fall short, the employer must make up the gap. Tennessee follows the federal floor and bars local wage ordinances, so these figures apply across Nashville.