The Missouri minimum wage, currently set at $7.85, will bump to $8.60 next year, then increase 85 cents each year thereafter until it reaches $12 in 2023. Voters in Arkansas also approved a minimum wage ballot measure Tuesday, raising it to $11 by 2021. The minimum wage increase will be the first significant one in Missouri since a referendum passed in 2006. Such proposals tend to be very popular with the general public, with support for raising the minimum wage typically crossing party lines. A full-time worker earning the minimum wage in Missouri makes around $16,300 per year right now.

Source: Huffington Post November 07, 2018 04:16 UTC