“Wages” defined
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 907 F. Supp. 2d 1214 - Dannenbring v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC (2013)
Most recently applied in 142 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 17 - STUCKEY v. APEX MATERIALS, LLC (February 2026)
(Added to NRS by 1985, 578; A 2021, 1763; 2023, 584)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
“Wages” means:
1. The amount which an employer agrees to pay an employee for the time the employee has worked, computed in proportion to time;
2. Commissions owed the employee; and
3. Amounts due to a discharged employee, an employee placed on nonworking status pursuant to NRS 608.020 or an employee who resigns or quits pursuant to NRS 608.040,
Ê but excludes any bonus or arrangement to share profits.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.