Tipped Minimum Wage in Hyattsville (2026)

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How Hyattsville tipped pay works

The controlling number comes from the Maryland Department of Labor: Prince George's County's minimum wage is $15.30 an hour for all employers regardless of size as of July 1, 2026, and it applies to any work done in the county — Hyattsville included. The county rate stepped up from the state's $15.00, which remains the statewide floor alongside a $3.63 tipped cash minimum. We could not verify a separate, higher Hyattsville-specific rate in any official source, so treat $15.30 as the governing figure and confirm with the City of Hyattsville if your employer claims a local exception.

For a tipped server, the $3.63 cash wage plus tips must reach $15.30 for every workweek — a tip credit of $11.67 an hour that the employer may not exceed. If the week comes up short, the employer owes make-up pay on the check, and Maryland layers on a disclosure rule: restaurants relying on the tip credit must give each tipped worker a Tip Credit Wage Statement every pay period showing the effective hourly rate with tips included. The state-level machinery is unpacked on our Maryland tipped minimum wage page; neighboring Montgomery County runs a different, higher table we track separately.

Worked example, 30-hour week: the floor is 30 × $15.30, or $459.00, of which at least 30 × $3.63, or $108.90, must be cash wages. Tips owe the remaining $350.10. Keep $370 in tips and the week totals $478.90 — an effective $15.96 an hour, no top-up owed. Keep $250 and the week lands at $358.90, exactly $100.10 short, and the employer owes $100.10 in make-up pay. That is the practical weight of a big tip credit: on a slow week, the make-up line is the paycheck. The server paycheck calculator runs this for your actual hours.

Hyattsville vs. Maryland and the federal floor

Two comparisons frame the page. Against the federal floor, a Hyattsville server's guaranteed all-in rate is more than double — $15.30 versus $7.25 — though the cash wage lines of $3.63 and $2.13 are closer than either side admits, per the U.S. Department of Labor's tipped minimum wage table. Against the region, Hyattsville is the low island in a high-wage sea: Montgomery County tiers reach $18.00 with a $4.00 tipped floor, the District next door runs its own tipped structure, and the difference between here and Rockville is nearly $3.00 an hour in guaranteed cash. Our city minimum wage tracker keeps those borders straight.

What Hyattsville servers should watch

The July 1 step-up. The county's $15.30 took effect July 1, 2026 — a mid-year change that payroll systems running the old $15.00 can miss for months. On a 30-hour week the 30-cent gap is $9.00, and it recurs every week until someone fixes the rate table. Check your stubs against the Maryland Department of Labor's county listing.

The $11.67 tip credit. Prince George's rate makes the county's tip credit one of the largest around: tips must contribute more than three-quarters of your minimum. That is legal, but only if the weekly math closes — cash plus tips averaging at least $15.30, or make-up pay owed. The Tip Credit Wage Statement you receive each pay period is the receipt; no statement is itself a violation worth reporting to the state.

Overtime on the full rate. Past 40 hours in a week the owed rate is time-and-a-half the minimum — $22.95 an hour all-in at the county figure — never time-and-a-half the $3.63 cash wage. Under the typical computation for tip-credit employees, the overtime cash rate works out to roughly $11.28 an hour plus tips; the overtime calculator does it line by line. Double-check any week with a catered event or a long Sunday brunch.

Local changes in motion. Prince George's County has been the region's most active wage laboratory — county ballot measures touching tipped wages have been reported for November 2026 — and Hyattsville's council has its own wage history. Nothing we could verify changes the numbers above today, but verify before you take a job or file a claim: the Maryland Department of Labor wage page is the authoritative current listing for county rates.