When your final paycheck is due in Alaska
In Alaska, if you are fired or laid off, your final paycheck is due within 3 working days. If you quit, it is due on the next regular payday that is at least 3 days after the employer gets notice.
- Fired or laid off
- Within 3 working days
- If you quit
- Next regular payday that is at least 3 days after the employer gets notice
- If the employer pays late
- The employer may owe the employee’s regular wages from the time of demand until paid, up to 90 working days.
- Filing a wage claim
- File a wage claim with the Alaska Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour section.
The 3-working-day rule applies whatever the reason for the firing.
The law
Alaska Stat. § 23.05.140. Read the statute or the state agency’s page.
Checked against the statute in October 2026. Laws change, so confirm the current rule before you rely on it.
What to do next
If the deadline has passed, ask for the wages in writing first and keep a copy. The free first letter in the Wage Claim Letters kit does this. If that doesn’t work, file a wage claim with the agency listed above. The final paycheck lookup compares states side by side.
Other states
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
General information about Alaska law, not legal advice, and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Wage Claim Letters is a self-help template kit from Kits For That.