Minimum Wage Calculator — Mississippi
Look up your state's minimum wage, see what it pays weekly and annually at your hours, and how far your state's floor sits above the federal $7.25 Figures shown for Mississippi.
Provisional rates. Minimum wages change on set schedules — verify against your state labor department before relying on this.
Mississippi
52 if year-round.
No state minimum wage law — the federal floor applies.
This state uses the federal floor of $7.25/hr, unchanged since 2009.
One question, fifty-one answers
“What is minimum wage?” has not had a single answer in decades. The federal floor has sat at $7.25 since 2009, and the states have spent those years going their own ways — Washington’s floor is now more than double the federal rate, while twenty states never moved at all.
The rule that resolves every conflict is simple, and it always favors the worker — the highest applicable floor wins. State beats federal when the state is higher; a city ordinance beats both.
The gap is real money
The spread between a federal-floor state and a high-floor state is not academic. At full-time hours, the difference between $7.25 and a $16-plus state floor is well over $18,000 a year — before taxes, which you can apply with the take-home pay calculator.
That gap explains a lot of American labor-market geography, from cross-border commuting to why the same national chains advertise different starting pay a few miles apart.
What the floor does not include
Minimum wage governs the base hourly rate. On top of it sit overtime rules — time-and-a-half past 40 hours federally, with daily thresholds in a few states — plus tipped-wage rules, youth training wages and small-employer carve-outs that vary by state.
If your paycheck divided by your hours ever comes out below your state’s floor, that is not a rounding issue. Document your hours and contact your state labor department — wage claims are exactly what they exist for, and the DOL’s state directory lists every office.
How this is calculated
Effective floor = the higher of the state and federal ($7.25) minimums Weekly = floor × hours per week Annual = weekly × weeks worked
Frequently asked questions
- What is the federal minimum wage?
- $7.25 per hour, unchanged since July 2009 — the longest stretch without an increase since the minimum wage was created in 1938. Because it has been flat while prices rose, most states have set their own higher floors, and the federal rate now governs in only about twenty states.
- Which minimum wage applies to me, state or federal?
- Whichever is higher. States can exceed the federal floor but cannot undercut it for covered workers, so Georgia's $5.15 state rate is a historical artifact — covered employees there earn $7.25. Cities can stack higher still, and where they do, the city rate wins.
- Do tipped workers have a different minimum?
- Often, yes. Federal law allows a $2.13 cash wage when tips bring the total to at least $7.25, but states vary enormously — several require the full minimum before tips. If tips ever leave you short of the regular floor for the pay period, your employer owes the difference.
- Why does my city pay more than this calculator shows?
- Dozens of cities and counties set local floors above their state — Seattle, Denver, Chicago, NYC and much of California among them. This calculator tracks the state floor, and the note under your state flags known local variation.