KANSAS CITY – In 2025, union members accounted for an estimated 9.8 percent of wage and salary workers in Missouri, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.
Acting Regional Commissioner Jerome Watters noted that the estimated number of workers belonging to unions was 271,000.
Nationwide, union members accounted for an estimated 10.0 percent of employed wage and salary workers. (See chart 1.)
Across states, the estimated rates of union membership varied widely, ranging from below five percent to nearly 25 percent.
State union membership data for 2025 are based on relatively few observations and only allows for broad characterizations.
This is available at www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/unionmembership_missouri.htm
The national report is located at www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf