Minimum Wage in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Look up wages by the row. Returns state, federal and tipped minimum wage — Sheets or Excel, auto-refreshing.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

minimumwage.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("minimumwage", A2, "field", "stateName")

State

State Name

Minimum Wage

State Rate

Federal Rate

California

7.25

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Live financial model

Drop =VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "stateName") into a cell and your model reads the latest number every refresh — no more pasting figures from a browser tab into a stale sheet.

Track a whole watchlist

Fill a column beside your list of tickers or currencies and every row updates together, so a hundred-row watchlist stays current on its own.

Dashboards that don't rot

Point a chart at the cell =VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "stateName") feeds and the chart re-draws as the data moves — a finance dashboard that's live instead of a Monday-morning snapshot.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "stateName")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "stateName")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

yearPremium
Year to get minimum wage for (e.g., 2020). Defaults to current year.
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "year", "2024")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

State Name
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "stateName")
Minimum Wage
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "minimumWage")
State Rate
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "stateRate")
Federal Rate
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "federalRate")
Tipped Minimum
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "tippedMinimum")
Uses Federal Rate
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "usesFederalRate")
Above Federal
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "aboveFederal")
Federal Difference
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "federalDifference")
Annual Income40hrsPremium
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "annualIncome40hrs")
Formatted › Minimum Wage
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "formatted.minimumWage")
Formatted › Annual IncomePremium
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "formatted.annualIncome")
State
=VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "state")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Minimum Wage, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Minimum Wage into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "field", "stateName") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Minimum Wage?

Minimum Wage returns stateName, minimumWage, stateRate, federalRate and tippedMinimum, plus 5 more — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what Minimum Wage returns?

Yes — Minimum Wage takes "year" as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("minimumwage", "CA", "year", "2024") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Which Minimum Wage fields need a paid plan?

annualIncome40hrs and formatted.annualIncome are included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.

Can I fill a whole column of Minimum Wage at once?

Yes. Put your state values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Minimum Wage cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Minimum Wage work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

How current is Minimum Wage?

It draws on 50 states + DC, served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and cells recalculate on the cadence you choose — every open, hourly, or every 30 minutes.