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Wage Order Wizard

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Wage Order Wizard First Step

  1. Select the one item below that clearly describes your organization's primary business purpose. If none of the items is an obvious match, select the last item, "None of these clearly applies to my organization."
  2. Click "Next" at the bottom of the page.

IMPORTANT: Does Your Organization Have Multiple Business Purposes?

If your organization has multiple business purposes with separate functional divisions, print the listed documents or order our all-in-one Wage Order poster, and then run the Wage Order Wizard again for each business purpose.


As its primary business activity, does your organization:
Do laundry, dry cleaning, linen supply fabric dyeing  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #6: Laundry, Linen Supply, Dry Cleaning, and Dyeing Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Preserve foods (through canning, freezing, preserving, pickling, curing, etc.)  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #3: Canning, Freezing, and Preserving Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Provide food or lodging in any way (such as in a restaurant, hotel hospital)  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #5: Public Housekeeping Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Sell or rent things (either wholesale or retail)  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #7: Mercantile Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Provide personal services (such as cutting hair or teaching aerobics classes)  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #2: Personal Service Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Manufacture things (including food items)  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #1: Manufacturing Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Have anything to do with transportation (such as air or bus travel, courier services freight forwarding)  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #9: Transportation Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Furnish entertainment and/or recreation to the public (including things like amusement parks, sports arenas, night clubs)  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #10: Amusement and Recreation Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Handle agricultural products after they've been harvested, but away from the farm where they were grown  ?
Work in radio or TV broadcasting  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #11: Broadcasting (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Work in the motion picture industry, either using film or electronic media  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #12: Motion Picture Industry (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Prepare agricultural products for market on the farm where they were grown  ?
None of these clearly applies to my organization.
You selected an Industry Wage Order (8 or 13) that relates to the processing of agricultural products. Because Wage Order requirements for agricultural enterprises are rather complex, it's a good idea to take a closer look at your situation.

Please select one of the following in relation to your main business purpose:
I handle agricultural products grown by someone else, including packing of a purchased crop or cooperative warehousing, cooling, grading, sorting, packing, ginning, etc.  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #8: Industries Handling Products after Harvest (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

I have a farm and I process my own crop right on the farm either in a moving packing plant or in a permanent structure on the premises.  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #13: Industries Preparing Agricultural Products for Market, on the Farm (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Neither of these options fits my situation exactly. 
Because none of the Industry Orders match your organization's primary business activity, you need to review the Occupation Orders for the one that most closely corresponds to your company's primary business purpose.

As its primary business activity, does your organization:
Offer professional, technical, clerical mechanical services?  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #4: Professional, Technical, Clerical, Mechanical, and Similar Occupations (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Work with agricultural products or services?  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #14: Agricultural Occupations (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Work directly for a private householder to provide care/maintenance?  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #15: Household Occupations (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Work in construction, drilling, logging mining?  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #16: Occupations in the Construction, Drilling, Logging, and Mining Industries (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Employ "miscellaneous employees"?  ?

Available multi-page pdf download (Members Only)

  •  Wage Order #17: Miscellaneous Employees (English | Spanish - Purchase below)

Available for purchase

Your Results

IMPORTANT: Does Your Organization Have Multiple Business Purposes?

If your organization has multiple business purposes with separate functional divisions, print the listed documents or order our all-in-one Wage Order poster, and then run the Wage Order Wizard again for each business purpose.


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