Louisiana Wage Garnishment Calculator
Louisiana exempts 75% of disposable earnings and never less than 30 times the federal minimum wage — the federal limit expressed as an exemption.
Louisiana’s exemption statute
- The statute scales the 30-times exemption up or down by pay period ("a multiple or fraction thereof").§1
- The exemption works differently for current or past-due support obligations, which follow their own limits.§1
- Louisiana has no state minimum-wage law, so the federal $7.25 governs both pay and the garnishment floor.§2
A Baton Rouge biweekly check near the floor
Louisiana phrases the rule as an exemption: three-quarters of disposable earnings, but never less than 30 hours of the federal minimum per week. On a $620.00 two-week check with $60.00 withheld, $560.00 is disposable; the protected minimum for two weeks is $435.00, which leaves $125.00 reachable — less than a quarter of the check.
Seventy-five percent, never less than 30 hours
Seventy-five percent of his disposable earnings for any week, but in no case shall this exemption be less than an amount in disposable earnings which is equal to thirty times the federal minimum hourly wage in effect at the time the earnings are payable or a multiple or fraction thereof