Mississippi Minimum Wage 2026
Figure basis: Official US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour DivisionMississippi has no state minimum wage law, so the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour applies to most Mississippi workers. This Mississippi minimum wage calculator turns that hourly rate into the numbers that actually matter to you: weekly, monthly and yearly pay. At $7.25 an hour, someone working a full 40-hour week earns about $290.00 before tax, or roughly $15,080.00 across a full year. Enter your own hours per week and weeks worked to see your gross pay, and edit the rate if you are paid above the minimum. The minimum wage is a floor, not a ceiling: employers can pay more, and some cities in Mississippi set their own higher local minimums. Tipped workers can be paid a lower cash wage as long as tips bring them up to the minimum; see the tipped calculator for that. The figure here is the state rate for 2026, sourced directly from the US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division; the pay calculation is simply hours times the rate.
Mississippi's 2026 minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Full time (40 hrs/week) that is about $290.00 a week and $15,080.00 a year before tax.
How Mississippi minimum wage pay is calculated
weekly pay = hourly rate x hours per week
annual pay = hourly rate x hours per week x weeks per year
overtime = hourly rate x 1.5 (hours over 40 in a week, FLSA)
These are gross figures before federal and Mississippi income tax, Social Security and Medicare. Your take-home pay is lower; see our Mississippi paycheck calculator for the after-tax amount.
Why Mississippi has no rate of its own
Mississippi is one of only five states, alongside Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina and Tennessee, that has never passed a minimum wage law of its own. That means the federal floor of $7.25 an hour, unchanged since 2009, is the operative number for most workers here, and there is no separate state rate to look up. A common mistake is searching for a 'Mississippi minimum wage' as if it were a distinct figure; in practice it is simply the federal rate.
State law also blocks cities and counties from acting on their own. Mississippi preempts local minimum wage ordinances, so a place like Jackson cannot set a higher wage the way many cities in other states do. The tipped rules mirror the FLSA exactly: employers may pay a cash wage of $2.13 an hour and claim up to a $5.12 tip credit, provided tips lift the worker to $7.25.
One subtlety worth knowing is FLSA coverage. A very small business that does not engage in interstate commerce and grosses under $500,000 a year can fall outside the federal Act entirely, which can leave a narrow group of workers with no statutory wage floor at all. Most Mississippi employees are covered, but it explains why the honest answer is 'federal $7.25' rather than a state law.
Mississippi minimum wage: frequently asked questions
What is the minimum wage in Mississippi in 2026?
Mississippi has no state minimum wage law, so the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour applies to most Mississippi workers. At $7.25 an hour, a full-time worker (40 hours a week) earns about $290.00 a week and $15,080.00 a year before tax. This rate took effect on July 24, 2009.
How much is full-time minimum wage in Mississippi per year?
At Mississippi's $7.25 minimum wage, 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is 2,080 hours, which comes to about $15,080.00 a year ($1,256.67 a month) in gross pay before tax and deductions. Part-time hours scale down from there; use the calculator to enter your own hours.
Is Mississippi's minimum wage going up?
Mississippi does not automatically index its minimum wage to inflation, so it changes only when the law changes. The figure here is the 2026 rate verified with the US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division.
What is the tipped minimum wage in Mississippi?
Mississippi lets employers pay tipped workers a lower cash wage of $2.13 an hour and count up to $5.12 of tips toward the minimum (a "tip credit"). If cash wage plus tips does not reach $7.25 an hour, the employer must make up the difference. See our Mississippi tipped minimum wage calculator for the full breakdown.
Is Mississippi's minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage?
No. The rate that applies in Mississippi is the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. Where a state and the federal rate differ, workers are entitled to the higher of the two.
Official sources
- Mississippi 2026 minimum wage rate: US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, as at July 11, 2026.
- Federal minimum wage ($7.25) and overtime rules: US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division.
Reviewed by the CalculatorHub team, edited by James Graham, 11 July 2026. See our methodology. General information, not legal or financial advice. Mississippi has no state minimum wage law and defaults to the federal FLSA rate of $7.25. Local minimums: Mississippi law prohibits local minimum wage ordinances.