Minimum wage in Missouri in 2027

$15.00 per hour¹

per hourGeneral rate from January 1, 2026

Rank among states and DC12of 51

Next change

No scheduled increase on record.

Since 2015Full history

Weekly, 40 hours$600.00

Monthly, 52 weeks ÷ 12$2,600.00

Annual, 2,080 hours$31,200.00

Overtime, 1.5×$22.50

3. Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to sections 290.500 to 290.530, and notwithstanding subsection 1 of this section, effective January 1, 2025, every employer shall pay to each employee wages at the rate of not less than $13.75 per hour, or wages at the same rate or rates set under the provisions of federal law as the federal minimum wage applicable to those covered jobs in interstate commerce, whichever rate per hour is higher. Thereafter, the minimum wage established by this subsection shall be increased by $1.25 per hour, to $15.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2026.

Source: statute
Citation: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502
snapshot: September 26, 2026
Notes: Proposition A (Nov 5, 2024). H.B. 567 (2025) removed later CPI indexing; no further step in current text.

Verified September 26, 2026

Year 2027

Rates in force during 2027

Applies to	Rate	Effective	Until
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 3. Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to sections 290.500 to 290.530, and notwithstanding subsection 1 of this section, effective January 1, 2025, every employer shall pay to each employee wages at the rate of not less than $13.75 per hour, or wages at the same rate or rates set under the provisions of federal law as the federal minimum wage applicable to those covered jobs in interstate commerce, whichever rate per hour is higher. Thereafter, the minimum wage established by this subsection shall be increased by $1.25 per hour, to $15.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2026. Source statute snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes Proposition A (Nov 5, 2024). H.B. 567 (2025) removed later CPI indexing; no further step in current text. Verified September 26, 2026	$15.00January 1, 2026 – current	January 1, 2026	current

1 rate in force

Rates by worker type, industry and employer size

The highest rate that fits the job applies.

Applies to	Rate	Cash wage	Max tip credit	Effective
Tipped employees Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 $15.00 MISSOURI MINIMUM WAGE IN EFFECT FOR 2026 TIPPED EMPLOYEES Employers are required to pay tipped employees at least 50 percent of the minimum wage, $7.50 per hour, plus any amount necessary to bring the employee’s total compensation to a minimum of $15.00 per hour. Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes Cash wage is 50% of the minimum wage (Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.512); page gives the year 2026 only, the $15.00 rate is effective January 1, 2026 per 290.502.3. Verified September 26, 2026	$15.00January 1, 2026	$7.50	$7.50	January 1, 2026

2015 to 2026

History

Each step is a rate row with its own quoted source.

$0$5$10$15$20201620182020202220242026Today$7.65$15.00Federal minimum $7.25

Show the history as a table

Applies to	Rate	Effective	Until
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 3. Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to sections 290.500 to 290.530, and notwithstanding subsection 1 of this section, effective January 1, 2025, every employer shall pay to each employee wages at the rate of not less than $13.75 per hour, or wages at the same rate or rates set under the provisions of federal law as the federal minimum wage applicable to those covered jobs in interstate commerce, whichever rate per hour is higher. Thereafter, the minimum wage established by this subsection shall be increased by $1.25 per hour, to $15.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2026. Source statute snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes Proposition A (Nov 5, 2024). Verified September 26, 2026	$13.75January 1, 2025 – January 1, 2026	January 1, 2025	January 1, 2026
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| 2016 \| $7.65 \| 2017 \| $7.70 \| 2018 \| $7.85 \| 2019 \| $8.60 \| 2020 \| $9.45 \| 2021 \| $10.30 \| 2022 \| $11.15 \| 2023 \| $12.00 \| 2024 \| $12.30 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Annual CPI-W adjustment under 290.502.2. Verified September 26, 2026	$12.30January 1, 2024 – January 1, 2025	January 1, 2024	January 1, 2025
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| 2016 \| $7.65 \| 2017 \| $7.70 \| 2018 \| $7.85 \| 2019 \| $8.60 \| 2020 \| $9.45 \| 2021 \| $10.30 \| 2022 \| $11.15 \| 2023 \| $12.00 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Prop B (2018) schedule step. Verified September 26, 2026	$12.00January 1, 2023 – January 1, 2024	January 1, 2023	January 1, 2024
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| 2016 \| $7.65 \| 2017 \| $7.70 \| 2018 \| $7.85 \| 2019 \| $8.60 \| 2020 \| $9.45 \| 2021 \| $10.30 \| 2022 \| $11.15 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Prop B (2018) schedule step. Verified September 26, 2026	$11.15January 1, 2022 – January 1, 2023	January 1, 2022	January 1, 2023
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| 2016 \| $7.65 \| 2017 \| $7.70 \| 2018 \| $7.85 \| 2019 \| $8.60 \| 2020 \| $9.45 \| 2021 \| $10.30 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Prop B (2018) schedule step. Verified September 26, 2026	$10.30January 1, 2021 – January 1, 2022	January 1, 2021	January 1, 2022
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| 2016 \| $7.65 \| 2017 \| $7.70 \| 2018 \| $7.85 \| 2019 \| $8.60 \| 2020 \| $9.45 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Prop B (2018) schedule step. Verified September 26, 2026	$9.45January 1, 2020 – January 1, 2021	January 1, 2020	January 1, 2021
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| 2016 \| $7.65 \| 2017 \| $7.70 \| 2018 \| $7.85 \| 2019 \| $8.60 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Prop B (2018) schedule step. Verified September 26, 2026	$8.60January 1, 2019 – January 1, 2020	January 1, 2019	January 1, 2020
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| 2016 \| $7.65 \| 2017 \| $7.70 \| 2018 \| $7.85 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Annual CPI-W adjustment under 290.502.2. Verified September 26, 2026	$7.85January 1, 2018 – January 1, 2019	January 1, 2018	January 1, 2019
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| 2016 \| $7.65 \| 2017 \| $7.70 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Annual CPI-W adjustment under 290.502.2. Verified September 26, 2026	$7.70January 1, 2017 – January 1, 2018	January 1, 2017	January 1, 2018
Standard Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502 Minimum Wage History Time Period \| $ Amount \| 2015 \| $7.65 \| Source agency page snapshot September 26, 2026 Notes DOLIR 'Minimum Wage History' table (Time Period \| $ Amount) gives the year only; Mo. Rev. Stat. 290.502 sets each change effective January 1. Annual CPI-W adjustment under 290.502.2. Verified September 26, 2026	$7.65January 1, 2015 – January 1, 2017	January 1, 2015	January 1, 2017

BLS · May 2025

How the minimum compares with typical pay in Missouri

65%of the median hourly wage

The median hourly wage across all occupations in Missouri is $22.98 and the mean is $29.89 (BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, state estimates). The minimum wage of $15.00 is 65% of the median and above the 10th-percentile wage of $14.32: more than a tenth of workers across Missouri earn less than this rate. BLS

Hourly pay across all occupations

Hourly pay across all occupations
Applies to	Rate
Minimum wage	$15.00
10th percentile	$14.32
25th percentile	$17.39
Median	$22.98
Mean	$29.89

9 rules · September 27, 2026

Labor law basics in Missouri

What the law adds on top of the hourly rate. Follow the citation for exceptions.

Overtime

Employers must pay 1.5 times the regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek, or over 52 hours for qualifying seasonal amusement or recreation businesses. (non-exempt employees; employees exempt from federal overtime are also exempt in Missouri)

Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.505

1. No employer shall employ any of his employees for a workweek longer than forty hours unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed. 2. Employees of an amusement or recreation business that meets the criteria set out in 29 U.S.C. 213(a)(3) must be paid one and one-half times their regular compensation for any hours worked in excess of fifty-two hours in any one-week period.

Source: statute
snapshot: September 27, 2026

Verified September 27, 2026

Pay frequency

Corporations and railroad operators must pay employees at least semimonthly, within 16 days after the close of each payroll period; executive, administrative, professional and commissioned employees may be paid monthly. (corporations and railroad operators doing business in Missouri)

Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.080

All corporations doing business in this state, and all persons operating railroads or railroad shops in this state, shall pay the wages and salaries of their employees as often as semimonthly, within sixteen days of the close of each payroll period; provided, however, that executive, administrative and professional employees, and sales people and other employees compensated in whole or in part on a commission basis, at the option of such employers, may be paid their salaries or commissions monthly.

Source: statute
snapshot: September 27, 2026

Verified September 27, 2026

Final paycheck

When an employer discharges an employee, unpaid earned wages are due on the day of discharge, and if the employee's written request for payment is not met within seven days the employer owes penalty wages. (discharged employees)

Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.110

Whenever any person, firm or corporation doing business in this state shall discharge, with or without cause, or refuse to further employ any servant or employee thereof, the unpaid wages of the servant or employee then earned at the contract rate, without abatement or deduction, shall be and become due and payable on the day of the discharge or refusal to longer employ and the servant or employee may request in writing of his foreman or the keeper of his time to have the money due him, or a valid check therefor, sent to any station or office where a regular agent is kept; and if the money or a valid check therefor, does not reach the station or office within seven days from the date it is so requested

Source: statute
snapshot: September 27, 2026
Notes: The penalty wages run for up to 60 days. Missouri sets no statutory deadline for employees who quit.

Verified September 27, 2026

Paid sick leave

repealed Missouri's paid sick time provision at section 290.600 has been repealed by 2025 H.B. 567, effective August 28, 2025.

Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.600

290.600. (Repealed L. 2025 H.B. 567, et al.)

Source: statute
snapshot: September 27, 2026
Notes: Proposition A (Nov. 5, 2024) created §§ 290.600 to 290.642 with 1 hour per 30 worked; those provisions applied from May 1, 2025 until the repeal.

Verified September 27, 2026

Tips

Employers of tipped employees may pay as little as 50% of the minimum wage in cash, but wages plus tips must total at least the full minimum wage, with the employer making up any shortfall. (tipped employees)

Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.512

1. No employer of any employee who receives and retains compensation in the form of gratuities in addition to wages is required to pay wages in excess of fifty percent of the minimum wage rate specified in sections 290.500 to 290.530, however, total compensation for such employee shall total at least the minimum wage specified in sections 290.500 to 290.530, the difference being made up by the employer.

Source: statute
snapshot: September 27, 2026

Verified September 27, 2026

Young workers' hours

Unless the director grants a written waiver, a child may not work more than 3 hours on a school day, 8 hours on a non-school day, or 6 days or 40 hours in a week, may not start before 7 a.m., and may not work after 7 p.m. from Labor Day to June 1 or after 9 p.m. from June 1 to Labor Day. (children (Missouri child labor law, Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 294))

Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 294.030

1. A child shall not be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful employment for more than three hours per day in any school day, more than eight hours in any nonschool day, more than six days or forty hours in any week. Normal work hours shall not begin before seven o'clock in the morning nor extend to after 9:00 p.m., except as provided in subsection 2 of this section. The provisions of this subsection may be waived by the director, in full or in part, depending upon the nature of the employment. Such waiver shall be provided in writing to the employer by the director. The waiver shall only exempt employment described in section 294.022. 2. On all evenings from Labor Day to June first, a child shall not be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful employment after 7:00 p.m. nor after 9:00 p.m. from June first to Labor Day

Source: statute
snapshot: September 27, 2026

Verified September 27, 2026

Required poster

Employers subject to the Missouri minimum wage law must post the Division of Labor Standards minimum wage summary poster in a conspicuous and accessible place.

Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502

All employers subject to any provisions of the law shall post a summary of the law and regulations. The Division of Labor Standards has created a summary to post for the convenience of Missouri employers. You also may print a Spanish Minimum Wage Summary Poster. Please post the summary in a conspicuous and accessible place at the business. Required by Missouri Revised Statutes, Section 290.522.

Source: agency page
snapshot: September 26, 2026

Verified September 27, 2026

Recovering unpaid wages

Employees paid less than Missouri minimum wage or overtime law requires can sue for the unpaid wages plus liquidated damages of twice that amount, costs and attorney fees, within three years.

Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.527

Any employer who pays any employee less wages than the wages to which the employee is entitled under or by virtue of sections 290.500 to 290.530 shall be liable to the employee affected for the full amount of the wage rate and an additional amount equal to twice the unpaid wages as liquidated damages, less any amount actually paid to the employee by the employer and for costs and such reasonable attorney fees as may be allowed by the court or jury. The employee may bring any legal action necessary to collect the claim. Any agreement between the employee and the employer to work for less than the wage rate shall be no defense to the action. All actions for the collection of any deficiency in wages shall be commenced within three years of the accrual of the cause of action.

Source: statute
snapshot: September 27, 2026

Verified September 27, 2026

Overtime-exempt salary threshold

Executive, administrative and professional employees are exempt from minimum wage and overtime only if they meet the duties tests and are paid a salary of at least $684 per week ($35,568 a year). (executive, administrative, professional and outside sales employees)

United States rule

Source: 29 C.F.R. Part 541

To qualify for exemption, employees generally must meet certain tests regarding their job duties and be paid on a salary basis at not less than $684 per week.

Source: agency page
snapshot: September 26, 2026
Notes: The 2024 rule raising the level to $844/$1,128 was vacated in November 2024; DOL enforces the 2019 level of $684.

Verified September 26, 2026

$15.00 / hour

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Hours per week

Gross pay before tax · $15.00
Weekly	$600.00
Monthly52 weeks ÷ 12	$2,600.00
Annual52 weeks	$31,200.00
Overtime rate1.5× where overtime applies	$22.50

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What is the minimum wage in Missouri in 2027?

$15.00 per hour since January 1, 2026. For a 40-hour week that is about $600.00 a week or $31,200.00 a year before tax.

Is the minimum wage in Missouri increasing?

No increase is scheduled on record as of October 1, 2026. Inflation-indexed jurisdictions announce the next figure a few months before it takes effect.

What is the tipped minimum wage in Missouri?

Employers may pay tipped employees a cash wage of $7.50 per hour as long as tips bring them to $15.00 (a maximum tip credit of $7.50).

How does Missouri compare with other states?

Missouri's $15.00 ranks 12 of 51 state general rates, against a federal floor of $7.25.

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Missouri sets 2 rules of its own.

Notes on this jurisdiction's rules and sources

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.502. CPI-W indexed each January 1 through 2024 (Prop B 2006), stepped schedule 2019-2023 (Prop B 2018), Proposition A (2024) steps for 2025 and 2026. H.B. 567 (2025, effective Aug 28, 2025) ended indexing after 2026, so no increase is scheduled. Retail or service businesses with annual gross income under $500,000 are exempt from the state rate (federal rules apply). Tipped cash wage is 50% of the rate.

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Enforcement

Enforced by Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards. Employers must display the official minimum wage poster.

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