What is the minimum wage in Mississippi in 2025?

Mississippi has no state minimum wage law. The effective minimum for most workers is the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) rate of $7.25 per hour, which has been unchanged since July 24, 2009. Mississippi is one of the few states that has never enacted its own minimum wage statute, leaving workers entirely dependent on the federal floor.

Does Mississippi have its own minimum wage?

No. Mississippi has no state minimum wage statute. Most private-sector employees are covered by the federal FLSA floor of $7.25/hr. Workers not covered by the FLSA — for example, those at very small employers not engaged in interstate commerce — may legally be paid less, though this situation is uncommon in practice.

How is overtime calculated in Mississippi?

Federal FLSA rules govern overtime in Mississippi. Any hours worked beyond 40 in a single workweek must be paid at a rate of at least 1.5 times the regular hourly rate. At the federal minimum of $7.25/hr, the overtime rate is $10.875/hr. This calculator applies the 1.5x multiplier automatically whenever you enter more than 40 hours per week.

How does this calculator compute monthly and annual pay?

Monthly gross equals weekly gross multiplied by 52 and divided by 12, giving the exact calendar-month average across short and long months. Annual gross equals weekly gross multiplied by 52. Both figures are pre-tax gross pay only — they do not deduct income tax, Social Security, Medicare, health insurance or any other withholding.

Can Mississippi cities set a higher local minimum wage?

Mississippi law does not expressly preempt local minimum wage ordinances, but no Mississippi city or county has enacted one as of 2025. As a result, the only legally mandated wage floor anywhere in Mississippi remains the federal $7.25/hr under the FLSA.

Am I covered by the federal minimum wage in Mississippi?

Most Mississippi employees are covered by the FLSA if their employer has annual gross sales of $500,000 or more, or if the business is involved in interstate commerce. Tipped employees may receive a direct cash wage as low as $2.13/hr under federal rules, provided tips bring total hourly pay to at least $7.25. If tips fall short in any workweek, the employer must make up the difference.

Mississippi Minimum Wage Calculator

Mississippi is one of the few US states with no state minimum wage law of its own. That places most workers squarely under the federal floor of $7.25 per hour — the rate set by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and unchanged since July 24, 2009. This calculator turns that hourly rate (or any wage above it) into the figures that matter for real-world budgeting: weekly gross, monthly gross and annual gross, with overtime baked in automatically as soon as you log more than 40 hours in a week.

How it works

Enter your hourly wage and your average hours per week. The calculator divides your hours into two buckets:

Regular time — the first 40 hours, paid at your straight-time rate.
Overtime — any hours beyond 40, rated at 1.5 times your regular rate under FLSA Section 7(a)(1).

Weekly gross = (regular hours x wage) + (overtime hours x wage x 1.5).

Monthly gross is weekly gross x 52 / 12, which captures the exact calendar average across the varying lengths of each month. Annual gross is weekly gross x 52.

All calculations run entirely in your browser — no figures are sent to any server.

Worked example

Suppose you work 45 hours per week at the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour:

Metric	Calculation	Result
Regular pay	40h x $7.25	$290.00
Overtime pay	5h x $10.875 (1.5x)	$54.38
Weekly gross	$290.00 + $54.38	$344.38
Monthly gross	$344.38 x 52 / 12	$1,492.31
Annual gross	$344.38 x 52	$17,907.76

At a straight 40 hours per week with no overtime, the federal minimum in Mississippi produces a weekly gross of $290.00, a monthly gross of $1,256.67 and an annual gross of $15,080.00 — all before income tax, Social Security, Medicare or any other withholding.

The tool also shows a federal minimum comparison panel, so you can immediately see the annual difference between your actual wage and the $7.25 floor.

Mississippi minimum wage in context

Mississippi’s reliance on the federal FLSA floor rather than its own statute means no mandated pay increase has reached Mississippi workers since 2009. In the same period, the Consumer Price Index has risen by more than 50 percent, meaning $7.25 in 2025 has significantly less purchasing power than it did when the rate was set. Employers in Mississippi’s dominant industries — agriculture, food service, retail and tourism — operate entirely under federal rules unless they voluntarily pay above the floor to remain competitive in the local labor market.

Tipped workers occupy a special category: federal rules permit a direct cash wage as low as $2.13 per hour for tipped employees, provided that tips bring the effective hourly rate to at least $7.25. If tips fall short in any workweek, Mississippi employers are legally required to make up the difference. Mississippi does not supplement or modify these federal tipped-wage rules with any state law.

Use the calculator to model any wage scenario — $10/hr, $12/hr, $15/hr — so you can compare job offers, negotiate a raise, or plan a household budget on a realistic income figure.