When your final paycheck is due in Connecticut
In Connecticut, if you are fired or laid off, your final paycheck is due by the next business day. If you quit, it is due on the next regular payday.
- Fired or laid off
- By the next business day
- If you quit
- Next regular payday
- If the employer pays late
- The employee can recover twice the unpaid wages plus costs and attorney fees (only the full amount if the employer shows a good-faith belief it complied).
- Unused vacation
- Owed only if an employer policy or union contract provides for payment of accrued vacation at termination.
- Filing a wage claim
- File a wage complaint with the Connecticut Department of Labor, Wage and Workplace Standards Division.
Statute text read in the Connecticut Department of Labor’s official reprint of the wage payment laws (updated December 2023); cga.ct.gov blocked automated reading.
The law
Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 31-71c, 31-72, 31-76k. 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
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- Texas
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- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
General information about Connecticut 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.