Missouri $11 Minimum Wage Initiative (2018)

Missouri $11 Minimum Wage Initiative
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic Minimum wage
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens
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The Missouri $11 Minimum Wage Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.

Raise Up Missouri proposed ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage to $11, $12, $13, $14, and $15. The group settled on an initiative to increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour and collected signatures for the 2018 ballot.

The measure would have increased the minimum wage to $11 by 2021 or 2022.

Richard Von Glahn, who filed the initiative, proposed multiple versions.

As of 2017, the minimum wage in Missouri was $7.70.

Text of measure

Ballot title

As multiple versions of this initiative were filed for circulation, the secretary of state crafted a ballot title for each one.

Measure 2018-213

Do you want to amend Missouri law to: increase the state minimum wage to $8.75 per hour with 75 cents per hour increase each year until 2022, when the state minimum wage would be $11.00 per hour; exempt government employers from the above increase; and increase the penalty for paying employees less than the minimum wage? State and local governments estimate no direct costs or savings from the proposal, but operating costs could increase by an unknown annual amount that could be significant. State and local government tax revenue could increase by an unknown annual amount ranging from $600,000 to $164 million depending on business decisions.

Measure 2018-214

Do you want to amend Missouri law to: increase the state minimum wage to $8.75 per hour with 75 cents per hour increase each year until 2022, when the state minimum wage would be $11.00 per hour; and exempt government employers from the above increase? State and local governments estimate no direct costs or savings from the proposal, but operating costs could increase by an unknown annual amount that could be significant. State and local government tax revenue could increase by an unknown annual amount ranging from $600,000 to $164 million depending on business decisions.

Measure 2018-215

Do you want to amend Missouri law to: increase the state minimum wage to $8.75 per hour with 75 cents per hour increase each year until 2022, when the state minimum wage would be $11.00 per hour; and exempt government employers from the above increase? State and local governments estimate no direct costs or savings from the proposal, but operating costs could increase by an unknown annual amount that could be significant. State and local government tax revenue could increase by an unknown annual amount ranging from $600,000 to $164 million depending on business decisions.

Measure 2018-216

Do you want to amend Missouri law to: increase the state minimum wage to $9.00 per hour with $1.00 per hour increase each year until 2021, when the state minimum wage would be $11.00 per hour; exempt government employers from the above increase; and increase the penalty for paying employees less than the minimum wage? State and local governments estimate no direct costs or savings from the proposal, but operating costs could increase by an unknown annual amount that could be significant. State and local government tax revenue could increase by an unknown annual amount ranging from $20,000 to $170 million depending on business decisions.

Full text

The full text of the initiative is available for Petition 2018-213, Petition 2018-214, Petition 2018-215, and Petition 2018-216.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri

Supporters of the initiative were required to collect a number of signatures equivalent to 5 percent of the 2016 gubernatorial vote in six of the eight state congressional districts. This means that the minimum possible number of valid signatures required was 100,126. Signatures needed to be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election on November 6, 2018. Six months prior to the election was May 6, 2018.

Richard Von Glahn proposed multiple versions of the initiative.

See also

Suggest a link

• Missouri 2018 ballot measures
• 2018 ballot measures
• Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri

External links

• 2018 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation