# Missouri — Wage garnishment limits and exempt earnings by state

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, not quoted from the source)_
- **Maximum share of earnings a creditor may take:** twenty-five percentum _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **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: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute:** 525.030 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## 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

## Source

- https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=525.030

Last verified: 2026-08-30. Review by: 2027-02-25.
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