Missouri Minimum Wage 2026
Figure basis: Official Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial RelationsMissouri's minimum wage is $15.00 per hour in 2026, set by the state and above the federal minimum of $7.25. This Missouri minimum wage calculator turns that hourly rate into the numbers that actually matter to you: weekly, monthly and yearly pay. At $15.00 an hour, someone working a full 40-hour week earns about $600.00 before tax, or roughly $31,200.00 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 Missouri 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 Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; the pay calculation is simply hours times the rate.
Missouri's 2026 minimum wage is $15.00 per hour. Full time (40 hrs/week) that is about $600.00 a week and $31,200.00 a year before tax.
How Missouri 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 Missouri income tax, Social Security and Medicare. Your take-home pay is lower; see our Missouri paycheck calculator for the after-tax amount.
How Proposition A pushed Missouri to $15.00
Missouri's minimum wage reached $15.00 an hour on January 1, 2026, climbing from $13.75, and the political back-and-forth behind that number is worth knowing. Voters passed Proposition A in November 2024, which set the raise to $15.00 and called for automatic inflation adjustments in later years. In 2025 the Legislature responded with House Bill 567, which repealed the future cost-of-living increases starting in 2027. The upshot is that Missouri lands at $15.00 for 2026 and then, unless the law changes again, simply stays there rather than indexing upward like several neighboring states.
Missouri also preempts local wage ordinances, so a city such as Kansas City or St. Louis cannot set its own higher minimum. St. Louis briefly had a higher city wage years ago before state preemption ended it, which is why the figure on this page applies statewide with no municipal exceptions to hunt down.
For tipped employees, Missouri uses a straightforward split: the employer may pay a cash wage of 50 percent of the minimum, which is $7.50 an hour in 2026, and must add enough to reach $15.00 once tips are counted. If a shift's tips leave a worker short of the full minimum, the employer owes the difference. Because the cash portion is pegged at half the minimum, it rose automatically this year in step with the jump to $15.00.
Missouri minimum wage: frequently asked questions
What is the minimum wage in Missouri in 2026?
Missouri's minimum wage is $15.00 per hour in 2026, set by the state and above the federal minimum of $7.25. At $15.00 an hour, a full-time worker (40 hours a week) earns about $600.00 a week and $31,200.00 a year before tax. This rate took effect on January 1, 2026.
How much is full-time minimum wage in Missouri per year?
At Missouri's $15.00 minimum wage, 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is 2,080 hours, which comes to about $31,200.00 a year ($2,600.00 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 Missouri's minimum wage going up?
Missouri 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 Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
What is the tipped minimum wage in Missouri?
Missouri lets employers pay tipped workers a lower cash wage of $7.50 an hour and count up to $7.50 of tips toward the minimum (a "tip credit"). If cash wage plus tips does not reach $15.00 an hour, the employer must make up the difference. See our Missouri tipped minimum wage calculator for the full breakdown.
Is Missouri's minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage?
Yes. Missouri's $15.00 is $7.75 an hour above the federal minimum of $7.25, which works out to about $16,120.00 more a year for a full-time worker.
Official sources
- Missouri 2026 minimum wage rate: Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, 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. Rose from $13.75 to $15.00 on 2026-01-01 under Proposition A (2024). House Bill 567 (2025) removed future annual CPI adjustments from 2027, so the rate stays at $15.00 unless the law changes. Local minimums: Applies to private employers; local minimum wages are preempted by state law.