Hourly workers must be paid at least semi-monthly. Itemized statement required every payment.
The Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (820 ILCS 115/3) requires hourly and non-exempt workers to be paid at least semi-monthly — twice per calendar month. Executive, administrative, and professional employees can be paid monthly. Each payment must be accompanied by an itemized wage statement showing hours, rates, gross wages, deductions, and net pay. Failure to comply triggers Wage Payment Act remedies: 5% per month penalty, attorney fees, double damages for willful violations.
Wage Statement & Pay Frequency
Enforces semi-monthly minimum frequency for hourly workers. Generates itemized wage statements showing hours, rate, gross, deductions, and net per the IL Wage Payment Act.
What those rules do as payroll runs in Illinois.
The hero card configuration: Block on illegal monthly setup for hourly, Flag on missing statement fields.
When an admin attempts to set up a monthly pay cadence for an hourly or non-exempt worker, the configuration is blocked. Semi-monthly is the minimum — weekly or biweekly is also acceptable.
Every wage statement is verified to contain: hours worked, rate(s) of pay, gross wages, all deductions itemized, net pay, employer name, employee name, pay period dates. Missing fields surface as Flag indicators.
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Two requirements: cadence and itemization.
The Wage Payment Act has been the foundation of Illinois wage compliance since the 1970s. Section 3 covers cadence; Section 10 covers statement contents. Both apply to every pay run.
Semi-monthly minimum for hourly
Hourly and non-exempt employees must be paid at least semi-monthly (twice per calendar month). Most Illinois employers use biweekly (every 2 weeks) or semi-monthly (1st and 15th, or 15th and end-of-month). Weekly pay is also acceptable. Monthly pay is permitted only for executive, administrative, and professional employees who pass the FLSA exempt tests.
Pay timeliness within the cadence
Wages earned during a semi-monthly or biweekly pay period must be paid not later than 13 days after the end of the pay period. Wages earned during a weekly pay period must be paid not later than 7 days after. The lag time is the operational deadline.
Teambridge enforces frequency, formats statements, retains the records.
Wage statement compliance is the kind of background work that's invisible until an IDOL audit — at which point the cost of getting it wrong compounds quickly.
Set at employer onboarding.
When an employer is configured, pay frequency is set per worker classification. Hourly workers are gated to semi-monthly minimum; exempt workers can be monthly.
All required fields populated.
Every paystub generates with all IL Wage Payment Act required fields. Missing data fails the run before it processes.
Balances integrated into statement.
Workers covered by paid leave ordinances see balances on each paystub: hours accrued, hours used, current balance. Visibility is required.
3-year archive maintained automatically.
All wage statements are archived for at least 3 years and exportable for IDOL inspection on request.
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