All private and public adult employees in Utah must be paid a minimum wage of $5.15 per hour.
The minimum wage does not apply to any employee covered by the federal Fair
Labor Standards Act or to the following employees: (1) Outside salespersons; (2)
Any employee who is a member of the employer's immediate family; (3) Casual and
domestic employees; (4) Companionship services for persons who are unable to
care for themselves because of age or infirmity; (5) Seasonal employees of
nonprofit camping programs, religious or recreation programs, and nonprofit
educational and charitable organizations; (6) Persons employed by the U.S.
government; (7) Prisoners employed through the penal system; (8) Any worker
employed in agriculture if the employee: (a) is principally engaged in the range
production of livestock; (b) is employed as a harvest laborer and is paid on a
piece-rate basis in an operation that has been and is generally recognized by
custom as having been paid on a piece-rate basis in the region of employment;
(c) was employed in agriculture less than 13 weeks during the preceding calendar
year; or (d) is a retired or semiretired person performing part-time or
incidental work as a condition of residence on a farm or ranch; (9) Registered
apprentices or students employed by the educational institution in which they
are enrolled; (10) Any seasonal hourly workers employed by a seasonal amusement
establishment with permanent structures and facilities that: (a) does not
operate for more than seven months in a calendar year; or (b) during the
preceding calendar year its average receipts for any six months of such year
were not more than one-third of its average receipts for the other six months of
that year may be paid less than the applicable minimum wage, provided that other
direct monetary compensation from tips, incentives, commissions, end-of-season
bonus, or other form of pay is sufficient to cause the average hourly rate of
total compensation for the season of employees who continue to work to the end
of the operating season to equal the applicable minimum wage.