Missouri minimum wage 2026
$15.00 an hour, or $7.50 for tipped workers when tips make up the rest. Below: how to tell if a slow week still left you short.
In effect on November 4, 2026
Missouri minimum wage per day, week, month and year
| Hours | Pay | |
|---|---|---|
| Per hour | 1 | $15.00 |
| Per day | 8 | $120.00 |
| Per week | 40 | $600.00 |
| Every two weeks | 80 | $1,200.00 |
| Per month | 173.3 | $2,600.00 |
| Per year | 2,080 | $31,200.00 |
With a tip credit, your employer can pay you $7.50 an hour, but your wages plus tips have to reach $15.00 for every hour you work that week: $600.00 for a 40-hour week.
Will Missouri’s minimum wage go up in 2027?
No increase has been passed for 2027: it stays at $15.00 unless the law changes.
Minimum wage in Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis
Missouri cities can’t set their own minimum wage: Missouri law (RSMo §290.528) doesn’t allow it. In Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis, the Missouri minimum applies: $15.00 an hour.
How the tip credit works in Missouri
Employers in Missouri can pay tipped workers $7.50 an hour as long as your wages plus tips for the workweek come to at least $15.00 for every hour worked. If they don’t, the employer has to pay the difference.
For example, 30 hours at $7.50 comes to $225.00. With $100.00 in tips, you’d have $325.00. The minimum for 30 hours is $450.00, so your employer owes you $125.00.
Good to know
Retail and service businesses with annual sales under $500,000 are exempt.
Overtime
Under federal law, hours over 40 in a workweek are paid at time and a half (1.5 times your regular rate): at Missouri’s minimum, at least $22.50 an hour. Missouri has no daily overtime: a 12-hour double only gets you overtime if it takes your week past 40 hours.
With a tip credit, your employer still has to pay you at least $15.00 in cash wages for each overtime hour: $22.50 minus the $7.50 tip credit. How overtime works with tips.
PayJar applies weekly overtime from the start and lets you turn on daily overtime and double time. Add up your week’s hours and overtime in the time card calculator.
Questions
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Other states
- Federal
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- District of Columbia
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- Tennessee
- Texas
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- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
General information, not legal advice. Your state labor department has the final word, and some cities, counties and industries have higher minimums.
Sources
- labor.mo.gov/news/press-releases/minimum-wage-increases-1500-hour-2026
- labor.mo.gov/dls/minimum-wage/tipped-employees
- U.S. Department of Labor: State minimum wage laws
- U.S. Department of Labor: Minimum wages for tipped employees
- U.S. Department of Labor: How to file a complaint
- U.S. Department of Labor: Complaints and the investigation process
Stop wondering if your check is right.
PayJar knows your state’s minimum wage and tipped wage. Log your shifts and tips, and it tells you when a week comes up short.