Missouri
For Missouri, maximum share of earnings a creditor may take is twenty-five percentum; earnings wholly exempt is thirty times the federal minimum hourly wage prescribed by section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in effect at the time the earnings are payable; statute is 525.030, verified against its source on 2026-08-30.
- State
- Missouri our reading
- Maximum share of earnings a creditor may take
- twenty-five percentum verified
- Earnings wholly exempt
- thirty times the federal minimum hourly wage prescribed by section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in effect at the time the earnings are payable verified
- Statute
- 525.030 verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
The maximum part of the aggregate earnings of any individual for any workweek, after the deduction from those earnings of any amounts required by law to be withheld, which is subjected to garnishment may not exceed (a) twenty-five percentum, or, (b) the amount by which his aggregate earnings for that week, after the deduction from those earnings of any amounts required to be withheld by law, exceed thirty times the federal minimum hourly wage prescribed by section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in effect at the time the earnings are payable, or, (c) if the employee is the head of a family and a resident of this state, ten percentum, whichever is less. (2) The restrictions on the maximum earnings subjected to garnishment do not apply
— revisor.mo.gov, retrieved 2026-08-29
Source
- revisor.mo.govhttps://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=525.030