Missouri Minimum Wage Law
The minimum wage rate in Missouri is $7.25 per hour through 2011.
Retail or service businesses with gross annual sales or business of less than $500,000 are exempt.
The minimum wage provisions in Missouri do not apply to:
- agricultural employees or employers;
- executive, administrative or professional employees;
- volunteers;
- foster parents;
- employees covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act;
- camp employees;
- certain educational organization employees;
- "handymen";
- persons with disabilities employed in sheltered workshops;
- domestics;
- babysitters and companions;
- employees covered by Part I of the Interstate Commerce Act;
- golf caddies and newspaper delivery persons;
- commissioned salespersons;
- federal employees;
- some retail or service business employees;
- prisoners; and
- local newspaper employees.
