Note: Vermont's minimum wage is adjusted annually based on changes in inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Cash wage: $4.10
Maximum tip credit: $4.36

NOTE: A service or tipped employee means an employee of hotel, motel, tourist place, or restaurant, who customarily and regularly receives more than $120.00 a month in tips.

Note:The cash wage or basic wage rate is the minimum required employer contribution towards your hourly minimum wage. The "maximum tip credit" is the amount of tips you will need on top of your cash wage to make the minimum wage of $8.15 per hour. If you do not receive sufficient tips in your workweek to achieve the minimum wage for all hours worked that week, your employer must make up the difference.

Your employer is entitled to deduct from your wages an allowance for meals and lodging actually furnished and accepted as follows:

 Note: p.d. = per day,  p.w. = per week

You are exempt from Vermont's minimum wage if you are:

• employed by the United States;
• employed in a domestic service in or about a home;
• an outside salesman;
• employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capacity;
• employed in the activities of a publicly supported non-profit organization (except laundry employees and nurses aides or practical nurses)
  
• a taxi cab driver;
  
• an agriculture worker;
• a newspaper or advertisement home delivery person;
  
• a full time high school student.
  

Interns or trainees in the for-profit private sector who are qualifying more as employees than as trainees must be paid at least the minimum wage and overtime compensation for more then 40 hours worked in a workweek.

Read more via the next link about Minimum Wage Internships.