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Missouri Minimum Wage Law

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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.
 

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