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Nov. 7, 2018 | By: Ryan Elliott
Minimum wage workers in Missouri will soon get a boost in pay after voters on
Tuesday approved a plan to gradually raise the wage to $12 an hour.
The current minimum wage in Missouri is $7.85 an hour. Proposition B will
require the wage to rise to $8.60 an hour in 2019 and gradually increase to $12
an hour by 2023. The organization Raise Up Missouri turned in more than 120,000
signatures to get the measure on the ballot.
The effort got a boost in September when a Washington, D.C.-based dark money
nonprofit, The Sixteen Thirty Fund, donated $3 million to Raise Up Missouri. The
Kansas City Star reported it was the largest single contribution in the state in
the last two years.
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