At a glance
Portal
Portal has three places to find rates, plus settings and address corrections.
Wage Rates is the tab with no equivalent in the API. Rather than asking “what applies at this address”, it lets you search the underlying rate table by state, authority type, wage category, and industry, and export the result. It is the right tool for questions like “which authorities changed a rate this month” or “what tipped rates exist in this state”.
Columns include the
mwUid, state, authority and authority type, rate, effective date, whether the rate is inherited, major type, industry and minor type, and when it was last updated.
API
Four endpoints return rates. All are documented in the API reference.
See Retrieve upcoming minimum wage rate updates and Retrieve recent minimum wage rate updates for tracking changes over time.
If you reach Minimum Wage Finder as a Payroll Point add-on rather than as a standalone product, your endpoint paths are different. See Standalone MWF or PRP add-on.
Using both
The two are not exclusive. A common pattern is to integrate the API for day-to-day lookups and keep Portal for the compensation team, who use Wage Rates and Batch to answer questions the integration may not answer.Where to go next
Before your first lookup, your account administrator needs to configure your organization’s profile settings, and minimum wage must be licensed on your account. See Prerequisites.
Quickstart: Look up rates in Portal
Log in and run your first Maps or Batch lookup.
Quickstart: Call the MWF API
Authenticate and make your first rate lookup.