Read before relying · Source checked 2026-07-18

Orientation, not an answer.

The boundary matters. This site helps frame questions; it does not resolve a specific legal situation.

Not legal advice.

Auto Wage Law is an independent educational resource about wage-and-hour law as it meets retail-automotive compensation. Nothing on this site — pages, instruments, dollar figures, checklists, or record maps — is legal advice, and none of it substitutes for advice from a lawyer who knows the facts.

No attorney–client relationship.

Reading this site, running its instruments, or contacting the project does not create an attorney–client relationship with anyone.

Instruments are orientation, not answers.

The analyzer, scenario lab, matrix, and ledger organize user-entered facts and perform bounded arithmetic. Their outputs are unresolved questions, record lists, and entered wage layers — not a valuation, forecast, compliance determination, liability finding, or safe harbor.

Time-sensitivity.

Wage floors, thresholds, regulations, and decisions change. A page’s source-check record identifies what was checked and when; it does not promise that no authority changed afterward or imply unnamed legal review.

Jurisdiction.

The site’s California analysis is California-specific; its federal analysis is federal. Neither maps automatically onto any other state, and local ordinances — county and city wage floors among them — are out of scope except where expressly noted.

Privacy of instrument inputs.

Everything you enter into an instrument stays in your browser. The site sets no analytics cookies and transmits no instrument inputs.