North Carolina
For North Carolina, law category is workers compensation; state threshold is 3 or more; key differences is Officers may waive their own coverage but still count toward the three-employee rule. Truck drivers must be covered even if treated as owner-operators. Agricultural employers are exempt unless they have 10 or more full-time, non-seasonal workers. Directly employed domestic servants are exempt; coverage / scope is Includes all employees, recorded from its source on 2026-08-14.
- State
- North Carolina verified
- Law category
- workers compensation our reading
- State threshold
- 3 or more verified
- Key differences
- Officers may waive their own coverage but still count toward the three-employee rule. Truck drivers must be covered even if treated as owner-operators. Agricultural employers are exempt unless they have 10 or more full-time, non-seasonal workers. Directly employed domestic servants are exempt. verified
- Coverage / scope
- Includes all employees. verified
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What the source says
North Carolina | 3 or more | Includes all employees. | Officers may waive their own coverage but still count toward the three-employee rule. Truck drivers must be covered even if treated as owner-operators. Agricultural employers are exempt unless they have 10 or more full-time, non-seasonal workers. Directly employed domestic servants are exempt.
— workcompone.com, retrieved 2026-08-14
Source
- workcompone.comhttps://www.workcompone.com/blog/minimum-number-of-employees-for-workers-comp-in-every-u-s-state/