Missouri Lawmakers Seek to Simplify State Employee Pay Scale from GOVERNING: State government news on politics, management & financ Few will argue that Missouri state workers are the lowest paid in the country. But a committee studying what to do about it wants to know if somehow the state's pay scale is too complicated for its own good. www.governing.com/news/state/Missouri-Lawmakers-Seek-to-Simplify-State-Employee-Pay-Scale.html