Skip to main content

All states + DC

Wage-garnishment by state

State rules layer on top of the federal CCPA cap. Some states (CA, NY, IL, MA, NJ) cap garnishment well below the federal 25%. Others (TX, NC, PA, SC) prohibit consumer-debt wage garnishment outright (with statutory carve-outs). Florida has a strong, tiered head-of-family exemption. The grid below is colored by doctrinal category — not “good versus bad” — because procedural complexity is a feature for some debt classes.

10 Wave-1 states primary-source-cited