Legislation to more than double the federal hourly minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 is back, but this time it’s not a liberal Democrat leading the charge but a conservative Republican – Josh Hawley of ...

Missouri’s minimum wage rose to $12 an hour this month for most private businesses, up 85 cents from last year. The increase is the final piece of Proposition B, a statewide ballot measure that went ...

Hundreds of thousands of workers will see more money in their paychecks starting next month due to minimum wage increases.

Missouri Proposition A on the November ballot would boost the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026 and require paid sick leave. Rural and urban areas might see different economic results ...

ST. LOUIS – The minimum wage in Missouri and Illinois is set to increase at the start of the 2024 calendar year. Missouri. Starting Jan. 1, Missouri’s new minimum wage will be $12.30 per hour ...

ST. LOUIS — The minimum wage in Missouri and neighboring Illinois is set to increase at the start of the 2024 calendar year. But another of Missouri’s neighbors won’t see any change.

On Jan. 1, 2025, the state’s minimum wage is set to increase to $13.75 per hour for workers of “all private and non-exempt businesses,” according to the Missouri Department of Labor. Idaho ...

Missouri’s increase marks the final step of a multi-year plan to raise the state’s minimum wage that began when voters approved it in 2018. Moving forward, the minimum wage will increase and ...

This is the third time that Missouri voters have increased the minimum wage — after increases in 2006 and 2018. Under Proposition A, Missouri’s minimum wage will increase in January 2025 from $12.30 ...

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) introduced a bill Tuesday with U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, making him one of the few Republicans to ...

"Currently the minimum wage for Missouri workers for someone working full time, 40 hours a week amounts to just $492 a week," von Glahn said. "That is not enough to survive on anywhere in the economy.

Minimum-wage workers in Missouri now make $12 an hour. While Missouri and other other states have raised worker pay, the Kansas minimum wage has stayed at the federal level of $7.25 per hour.