Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.472 (2026)

Payment of wages; time; regularly scheduled weekly or biweekly payday; monthly pay period; overtime earnings during month of December; frequency of wage payments.

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PAYMENT OF WAGES AND FRINGE BENEFITS

Act 390 of 1978

408.472 Payment of wages; time; regularly scheduled weekly or biweekly payday; monthly pay period; overtime earnings during month of December; frequency of wage payments.

Sec. 2.

(1) Subject to subsections (2), (3), and (4), an employer shall pay the following to an employee:

(a) On or before the first day of each calendar month, the wages earned by the employee during the first 15 days of the preceding calendar month.

(b) On or before the fifteenth day of each calendar month, the wages earned by the employee during the preceding calendar month from the sixteenth day through the last day.

(2) An employer shall pay to an individual engaged in any phase of the hand harvesting of crops all wages earned in a week by the individual on or before the second day following the work week unless another method of payment is agreed upon by written contract.

(3) An employer who has established a regularly scheduled weekly or biweekly payday is in compliance with subsection (1) if both of the following conditions are met:

(a) Wages are paid to the employee on the established regularly recurring payday.

(b) The payday occurs on or before the fourteenth day following the end of the work period in which the wages are earned.

(4) An employer who has established a regularly scheduled monthly pay period is in compliance with subsection (1) if the employer pays to the employee, within 15 days after the end of a monthly pay period, all wages earned during the monthly pay period.

(5) For employees' overtime earnings earned during the month of December that would, in compliance with this section, be paid to the employees after the sixteenth of December, an employer is in compliance with this section if both of the following conditions are met:

(a) Employees receive all their wages, except overtime, for the month of December on or before the employees' regularly scheduled payday.

(b) All overtime wages earned during the month of December are paid on or before the next regularly scheduled payday following the payday in which the overtime would otherwise be paid.

(6) An employer may pay wages more often than required by this section.

History: 1978, Act 390, Imd. Eff. Aug. 1, 1978 ;-- Am. 2018, Act 170, Eff. Sept. 2, 2018

Compiler's Notes:

For creation of bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation within department of consumer and industry services; transfer of powers and duties of bureau of worker's compensation and unemployment agency to bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation; transfer of powers and duties of director of bureau of worker's compensation and director of unemployment agency to director of bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation; and, transfer of powers and duties of wage and hour division of worker's compensation board of magistrates to bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation, see E.R.O. No. 2002-1, compiled at MCL 445.2004 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

For creation of the new wage and hour division as a type II agency within the department of labor and economic growth, see E.R.O. No. 2003-1, compiled at MCL 445.2011.

For transfer of powers and duties of the former wage and hour division of the department of consumer and industry services, transferred to the bureau of worker's and unemployment compensation, to the new wage and hour division within the department of labor and economic growth by type II transfer, see E.R.O. No. 2003-1, compiled at MCL 445.2011.

For the transfer of powers and duties of the department of licensing and regulatory affairs to the department of labor and economic opportunity, see E.R.O. No. 2019-3, compiled at MCL 125.1998.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 16 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1987–2022 · leading case: Detroit Pub. Schs. v. Conn, 308 Mich. App. 234 (Mich. Ct. App. 2014).

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Detroit Pub. Schs. v. Conn, 308 Mich. App. 234 (Mich. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 5× “MCL 408.472 is not violated in this case because the PWFBA must be read as a whole and the provisions of § 2 are subject to other provisions of the act.”

Cockels v. Int'l Bus. Expositions, Inc, 406 N.W.2d 465 (Mich. Ct. App. 1987). · cites it 3× “MCL 408.472; MSA 17.277(2) gives employees *34 the right to payment of earned wages at specific, regular intervals.”

Mahnick v. Bell Co., 662 N.W.2d 830 (Mich. Ct. App. 2003). “471(f); MCL 408.472. In the instant case, however, plaintiff has asserted a common-law breach-of-contract claim and did not bring an action under the wfba.”

Buckley v. Prof'l Plaza Clinic Corp., 761 N.W.2d 284 (Mich. Ct. App. 2008). “20 See MCL 408.472; MCL 408.474. 21 Kamalnath v Mercy Mem Hosp Corp, 194 Mich App 543, 553 ; 487 NW2d 499 (1992), quoting Parham v Preferred Risk Mut Ins Co, 124 Mich App 618, 622-623 ;”

Gravely v. Pfizer, Inc, 427 N.W.2d 613 (Mich. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 2× “Pfizer argues, and the administrative hearing referee and circuit court agreed, that the monies constituted "bonuses” and, therefore, "fringe benefits” which were to be paid in accordance with the terms set forth in Pfizer’s written policy.”

Fid. & Deposit Co. of Maryland & Am. Home Assurance Co. v. Rotec Indus., Inc., 392 F.3d 944 (7th Cir. 2004). “Code § 22-2-5-1; Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.472 ; N.J. Stat. 34:11-4.”

Dunlap v. Clinton Valley Ctr., 425 N.W.2d 553 (Mich. Ct. App. 1988). “MacDonald is distinguishable from the instant case as, in the instant case, plaintiff was on the premises to pick *358 up her paycheck, which her employer was legally required to give her under MCL 408.472; MSA 17.277(2). The plaintiff in MacDonald had left work to go shopping…”

QIS, INC. v. Indus. Quality Control, Inc., 686 N.W.2d 788 (Mich. Ct. App. 2004). “[3] We note that plaintiff used this tactic in this case, and risked violating MCL 408.472 as a result.”

Rutlin v. Prime Succession, Inc., 29 F. Supp. 2d 794 (W.D. Mich. 1998). “§ 408.472. For this reason, the Court denies defendants’ motion for summary judgment regarding plaintiffs WFBA claims for Period V.”

Qis, Inc. v. Indus. Quality Control, Inc., 686 N.W.2d 788 (Mich. Ct. App. 2004). “We note that plaintiff used this tactic in this case, and risked violating MCL 408.472 as a result.”

Ramos v. Intercare Cmty. Health Network, 916 N.W.2d 287 (Mich. Ct. App. 2018). “Plaintiff filed an employment wage complaint with the WHP, asserting that he had a right to be paid his wages under MCL 408.472. He maintained that he had correctly filled out his time sheet and that by accurately filling out the time sheet, he was exercising a right to receive…”

D Matthew Wilk v. State Bank (Mich. Ct. App. 2022). · cites it 3× “See MCL 408.472; MCL 408.473. How could it be otherwise? Therefore, the trial court properly granted summary dismissal of the WPA claim, and I dissent from the majority’s ruling to the contrary.”

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— Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.472(3) — 1 case

Detroit Pub. Schs. v. Conn, 308 Mich. App. 234 (Mich. Ct. App. 2014). “MCL 408.472 is not violated in this case because the PWFBA must be read as a whole and the provisions of § 2 are subject to other provisions of the act.”

— Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.472(l)(a) — 1 case

— Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.472(l)(b) — 1 case

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