Nevada Wage Payment Rules: Pay Frequency, Deductions & Records

Employees must be paid at least semimonthly on regular paydays designated in advance. Wages earned in the first half of a month are due by a set date, and the second half by another — post your paydays.

An employer may only withhold or deduct from wages where authorized by law or with the employee's written authorization for a lawful purpose. You generally cannot deduct for cash-register shortages, breakage, or losses as a way to shift business costs onto employees.

Keep records of wages, hours worked, and related information for each employee for at least 2 years, and make them available to the Labor Commissioner on request.

Remember the strict final-pay timing — immediately on discharge, and by the earlier of the next payday or 7 days on resignation (NRS 608.020–.050), with a waiting penalty for paying late.