Alaska Final Paycheck Calculator

Final pay after discharge

The verified Alaska final-pay registry says a fired employee must be paid within 3 working days, excluding weekends and holidays. This calculator excludes Saturdays and Sundays. It does not exclude holidays because holiday calendars are not entered.

Final pay after a quit

For a quitting employee, the verified registry says final pay is due on the next regular payday at least 3 working days after last day worked. Enter the next regular payday if you want the tool to check whether it is at least three working days after the last day worked.

Waiting-time penalty (AS 23.05.140(d))

Under AS 23.05.140(d), if an employer fails to pay final wages after a formal demand:

“the employer may be required to pay the employee a penalty in the amount of the employee's regular wage, salary, or other compensation from the time of demand to the time of payment, or for 90 working days, whichever is the lesser amount.”

In plain terms: the penalty is continuation of the employee's regular wage or salary from the date of demand to the date of payment, capped at 90 working days (whichever is lesser). This is a rule of law — no dollar amount is estimated here because the trigger date (the formal wage demand) is outside this tool.

Department-initiated actions (AS 23.05.140(e))

When the Alaska Department of Labor initiates the action rather than the employee privately, the penalty amount is calculated differently:

“The amount of the penalty shall be calculated based on the employee's straight time rate of pay for an eight-hour day.”

In other words: 8 hours × straight-time hourly rate per day, for the period from demand to payment or 90 working days, whichever is lesser.

No stacking with liquidated damages (AS 23.05.140(f))

In a private overtime suit resulting in AS 23.10.110 liquidated damages, the (d) penalty does NOT apply unless the department itself brought the case.

Source: https://labor.alaska.gov/lss/forms/pam100.pdf (verified)

What this does not determine

• Whether a holiday extends the working-day count.
• Whether all wages, commissions, reimbursements, deductions, or disputes are resolved.
• Whether federal, contract, public-sector, union, or handbook rules are more protective.
• The exact dollar amount of a waiting-time penalty — that depends on the formal demand date and wage rate, which are not entered here.

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Sources and verification

The fired and quit timing rules come from the verified Alaska Department of Labor source listed in the registry: Alaska wage and hour FAQ. Automated tests cover weekend-excluding working-day counts, fired timing, quit payday checks, invalid date handling, and visible result rendering.