About this site

I'm Dan. I practice workers' compensation law in Minneapolis, which means I spend my days with people whose paychecks and bodies both took a hit. Along the way you learn how often the paycheck part goes wrong quietly: hours that vanish, overtime that never multiplies, deductions no one agreed to, a final check that just never shows up.

MN Wage Buddy is my answer to that: the tools I wish every Minnesota worker had before deciding whether something is worth pursuing. An overtime calculator that knows both the Minnesota and federal rules. A checkup that gives an honest verdict, including "this looks lawful" when it does. And the state's certified prevailing wage rates, republished from the Department of Labor and Industry's schedules with the date we last verified them, because construction workers should not need to navigate a government PHP page to learn their own legal rate.

Two commitments. First, the calculators run in your browser: your hours, pay, and answers are never sent to us or stored, period. Second, the numbers come from named public sources, cited on the page. When our copy and the state's page disagree, the state's page controls, and we say so.

This site is an independent educational resource, not a law firm, and nothing on it is legal advice about your situation. If you ask to be connected with an attorney about a wage claim, your inquiry may be sent to a participating Minnesota attorney; participating attorneys may pay to receive inquiries, and no attorney-client relationship exists unless you and that attorney agree. Where a work injury is involved, the site says plainly that the inquiry comes to me and my firm. Details in the privacy policy.

MN Wage Buddy is part of a small family of free Minnesota tools: Comp Buddy for work injuries, Hail Buddy for storm damage, Rebate Buddy for energy rebates, and Property Tax Buddy for assessments. Same builder, same rules: public data, cited sources, nothing about you stored.