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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 608.012

“Wages” defined

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NRS 608.012  “Wages” defined.  “Wages” means:

      1.  The amount which an employer agrees to pay an employee for the time the employee has worked, computed in proportion to time;

      2.  Commissions owed the employee; and

      3.  Amounts due to a discharged employee, an employee placed on nonworking status pursuant to NRS 608.020 or an employee who resigns or quits pursuant to NRS 608.040,

Ê but excludes any bonus or arrangement to share profits.

      (Added to NRS by 1985, 578; A 2021, 1763; 2023, 584)

     

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2013–2026 · leading case: BUMA VS. PROVIDENCE CORP. DEV.
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BUMA VS. PROVIDENCE CORP. DEV. (2019) nev · cites it 2× “3d 497, 498-99 (2015) (holding that "wages" broadly "means the amount of money that an employee receives for the time the employee workecr) (citing NRS 608.012 (defining wages)); see also NAC 616C.”
Dannenbring v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC (2013) nvd · cites it 2× “-That is, to evaluate whether defendant’s opposition to plaintiff’s unemployment benefits could have been in retaliation to her NERC filing based on the dates these respective proceedings were brought. The court, however, finds such analysis improper at this stage.”
STUCKEY v. APEX MATERIALS, LLC (2026) nev · cites it 2× “010(26)({a), which defines “wages” to mean the “basic hourly rate of pay,” NRS 608.012 defines “wages” in contract terms, as “[t]he amount which an employer agrees to pay an employee for the time the employee has worked.”
MENSAH VS. CORVEL CORP. (2015) nev · cites it 2× “See generally NRS 608.012(1); see also Black's Law Dictionary 1610 (8th ed.”
Charde Evans v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2016) ca9 “See Nev. Rev. Stat. § 608.012 (defining wages as “[tjhe amount which an employer agrees to pay an employee for the time the employee has worked, computed in proportion to time”).”
Mercer v. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (2024) nvd “NRS 608.012 defines the term “wages” to specifically include “[a]mounts 11 || due to a discharged employee or to an employee who resigns or quits pursuant to NRS £2 12 |/608.”
MENSAH VS. CORVEL CORP. (2015) nev “See generally NRS 608.012(1); see also Black's Law Dictionary 1610 (8th ed.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 608.012(1) — 2 cases
MENSAH VS. CORVEL CORP. (2015) nev “See generally NRS 608.012(1); see also Black's Law Dictionary 1610 (8th ed.”
MENSAH VS. CORVEL CORP. (2015) nev “See generally NRS 608.012(1); see also Black's Law Dictionary 1610 (8th ed.”
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