Overtime Pay Calculator — Missouri (2026)
Overtime in Missouri starts with the federal FLSA floor: 1.5× your regular rate for every hour beyond 40 in a workweek. Some states add daily overtime or double-time rules on top. This calculator shows gross overtime pay and what survives federal, FICA and Missouri taxation in 2026. Missouri uses a progressive income tax with 8 brackets running from 0.00% up to 4.70%, applied after a state standard deduction of $16,100.
Missouri Overtime Pay Calculator
Your base pay per hour.
Hours beyond 40 in the workweek.
Overtime rules that apply in Missouri
Missouri follows the federal weekly standard: overtime is owed after 40 hours in a workweek, with no general daily overtime requirement.
The "regular rate" is not just your base hourly wage — non-discretionary bonuses, shift differentials and commissions must be folded in before multiplying by 1.5, which raises the true overtime rate for many logistics workers around Kansas City.
Is overtime taxed more in Missouri?
No — overtime is ordinary wages. It can feel over-taxed because per-period withholding tables annualize a big check as if every week looked like that, temporarily withholding at a higher rate that you recover at filing.
The Missouri layer applies to overtime exactly as to base pay, at rates up to 4.70%.
Exempt vs non-exempt in Missouri
Salaried does not mean exempt. To be exempt from overtime a worker must clear both a salary threshold and a duties test; misclassification is one of the most common wage claims filed in Missouri.
Cost of living in Missouri sits 12% below the national average (index 88), median household income is $65,920, and a one-bedroom apartment in Kansas City rents for roughly $1,200 a month.
Local and payroll taxes Missouri adds on top
Kansas City and St. Louis each levy a 1% earnings tax on wages earned in the city. That deduction sits outside the federal and state income tax lines, so build it into your own budget on top of the numbers above.
Kansas City and St. Louis levy a 1% earnings tax on residents and on non-residents who work in the city.
Overtime hours carry exactly the same local withholding as regular Missouri hours; the extra pay is taxed at your marginal rates, not at a special penalty rate, even though the deduction line looks bigger.
Working across a state line from Missouri
Missouri has no income-tax reciprocity agreements, so if you live here and work across a state line you generally file a nonresident return in the work state and claim a credit at home to avoid double taxation.
Remote and hybrid work complicates this further: most states tax income where the work is physically performed, so a Kansas City resident spending part of the year at a client site in Kansas may owe a nonresident return there. Keep a day-count log if you split time between states.
The rest of your Missouri tax bill
Missouri charges a 4.225% state sales tax, homeowners pay an average effective property tax of 0.98% of market value, and the minimum wage in force during 2026 is $15.00 an hour.
Local rates lift combined sales tax to about 8.4% on average.
Income tax is only one part of a state's take. Missouri recovers revenue through sales and property tax as well, which is why headline income tax rates alone are a poor guide to how far a salary really goes. Missouri exempts Social Security and offers public pension and private pension deductions subject to income limits.
Missouri vs Kansas on the same salary
On a $75,000 salary, a single filer keeps about $58,995 a year in Missouri against roughly $57,690 in Kansas — a difference of $1,305, or $109 a month.
Effective combined rates are 21.3% in Missouri and 23.1% in Kansas. Set that gap against living costs: index 88 here versus 87 there, with property tax at 0.98% and 1.34% respectively.
Missouri income tax brackets 2026 (single filer)
| Taxable income | Rate |
|---|---|
| $0 – $1,273 | 0.00% |
| $1,273 – $2,546 | 2.00% |
| $2,546 – $3,819 | 2.50% |
| $3,819 – $5,092 | 3.00% |
| $5,092 – $6,365 | 3.50% |
| $6,365 – $7,638 | 4.00% |
| $7,638 – $8,911 | 4.50% |
| $8,911 and up | 4.70% |