The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for each employee. persons covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act: excluded from the minimum wage. members of a religious order: excluded from the minimum wage. ministers, priests, rabbis, sextons, Christian Science readers: excluded from the minimum wage. persons engaged in activities of religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. Boy Scouts / Girl Scouts employees: excluded from the minimum wage. camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. houseparents at nonprofit educational institutions: excluded from the minimum wage. executive, administrative, or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. outside salespersons or collectors: excluded from the minimum wage. elected officials and legislative body members: excluded from the minimum wage. domestic employment: excluded from the minimum wage. youths under 18: excluded from the minimum wage. students under 20: excluded from the minimum wage. persons with a disability in cooperative school-work program: excluded from the minimum wage. inmates: excluded from the minimum wage. certain family members: excluded from the minimum wage. amusement or recreational establishment employees: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of employers not contributing to unemployment compensation fund: excluded from the minimum wage. dairy farming employees: excluded from the minimum wage. livestock production employees: excluded from the minimum wage.
Effective from ; verified on . The state rule (Texas) is the highest of the 2 levels compared; every level is listed below.
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for Covered, nonexempt workers. tipped employees: 2.13 USD per hour. employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage): 4.25 USD per hour. Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations: excluded from the minimum wage. Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery: excluded from the minimum wage. Farmworkers of small farm employers: excluded from the minimum wage. Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm: excluded from the minimum wage.
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Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
Amount
7.25
Currency
USD
Per unit
hour
Applies to
Covered, nonexempt workers
Exceptions
Amount
2.13
Category
tipped employees
Condition
individuals engaged in occupations in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the employer must pay at least $2.13 an hour in direct wages.
Amount
4.25
Category
employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage)
Condition
permitted for employees under 20 years of age during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer
Category
Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations (as defined in DOL regulations)
State: Texasanswers
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for each employee. persons covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act: excluded from the minimum wage. members of a religious order: excluded from the minimum wage. ministers, priests, rabbis, sextons, Christian Science readers: excluded from the minimum wage. persons engaged in activities of religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. Boy Scouts / Girl Scouts employees: excluded from the minimum wage. camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. houseparents at nonprofit educational institutions: excluded from the minimum wage. executive, administrative, or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. outside salespersons or collectors: excluded from the minimum wage. elected officials and legislative body members: excluded from the minimum wage. domestic employment: excluded from the minimum wage. youths under 18: excluded from the minimum wage. students under 20: excluded from the minimum wage. persons with a disability in cooperative school-work program: excluded from the minimum wage. inmates: excluded from the minimum wage. certain family members: excluded from the minimum wage. amusement or recreational establishment employees: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of employers not contributing to unemployment compensation fund: excluded from the minimum wage. dairy farming employees: excluded from the minimum wage. livestock production employees: excluded from the minimum wage.
Version 2 · effective from · verified on
Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
Amount
7.25
Currency
USD
Per unit
hour
Applies to
each employee
Exceptions
Category
persons covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act
Excluded
yes
Condition
Tex. Lab. Code Sec. 62.151: "This chapter and a municipal ordinance or charter provision governing wages in private employment, other than wages under a public contract, do not apply to a person covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.)."
Category
members of a religious order
Excluded
yes
Upcoming changes
No published changes are waiting to take effect.
Change history
Federal: United States
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
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new
minimum_wage in us: version 2, effective 2026-10-23, published (new)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for employees engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. Newly hired employees who are less than 20 years old: 4.25 USD per hour.
3in effect
correction
minimum_wage in us: version 3, effective 2009-07-24, published (correction); replaces version 2. Replaces version 2 (published effective 2026-10-23, the fetch date; its source stated no date)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for Covered, nonexempt workers. tipped employees: 2.13 USD per hour. employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage): 4.25 USD per hour. Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations: excluded from the minimum wage. Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery: excluded from the minimum wage. Farmworkers of small farm employers: excluded from the minimum wage. Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm: excluded from the minimum wage.
State: Texas
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
2in effect
new
minimum_wage in us-tx: version 2, effective 2026-10-24, published (new)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for each employee. persons covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act: excluded from the minimum wage. members of a religious order: excluded from the minimum wage. ministers, priests, rabbis, sextons, Christian Science readers: excluded from the minimum wage. persons engaged in activities of religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organizations: excluded from the minimum wage. Boy Scouts / Girl Scouts employees: excluded from the minimum wage. camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. houseparents at nonprofit educational institutions: excluded from the minimum wage. executive, administrative, or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. outside salespersons or collectors: excluded from the minimum wage. elected officials and legislative body members: excluded from the minimum wage. domestic employment: excluded from the minimum wage. youths under 18: excluded from the minimum wage. students under 20: excluded from the minimum wage. persons with a disability in cooperative school-work program: excluded from the minimum wage. inmates: excluded from the minimum wage. certain family members: excluded from the minimum wage. amusement or recreational establishment employees: excluded from the minimum wage. employees of employers not contributing to unemployment compensation fund: excluded from the minimum wage. dairy farming employees: excluded from the minimum wage. livestock production employees: excluded from the minimum wage.
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Category
Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, employees of certain small newspapers, seamen employed on foreign vessels, employees engaged in fishing operations, and employees engaged in newspaper delivery
Category
Farmworkers of small farm employers
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Farmworkers employed by anyone who used no more than 500 “man-days” of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year
Category
Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm.
Covered, nonexempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. … Tipped employees are individuals engaged in occupations in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the employer must pay at least $2.13 an hour in direct wages. … A minimum wage of not less than $4.25 an hour is permitted for employees under 20 years of age during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer. … Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay … Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations (as defined in DOL regulations); … Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, employees of certain small newspapers, seamen employed on foreign vessels, employees engaged in fishing operations, and employees engaged in newspaper delivery; … Farmworkers employed by anyone who used no more than 500 “man-days” of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year; … Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm.
(C) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day; … (1) In lieu of the rate prescribed by subsection (a)(1), any employer may pay any employee of such employer, during the first 90 consecutive calendar days after such employee is initially employed by such employer, a wage which is not less than $4.25 an hour. … (5) This subsection shall only apply to an employee who has not attained the age of 20 years
a member of a religious order while the person is performing a service for or at the direction of the order
Category
ministers, priests, rabbis, sextons, Christian Science readers
Excluded
yes
Condition
a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister, priest, rabbi, sexton, or Christian Science reader while the person is performing services in that capacity for a church, synagogue, or religious organization
Category
persons engaged in activities of religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organizations
Excluded
yes
Condition
engaged in the activities of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization in which: (A) the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist; or (B) the services are rendered to the organization gratuitously
Category
Boy Scouts / Girl Scouts employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
employed by the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of America, or a local organization affiliated with those organizations
Category
camp employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
employed by a camp of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization
Category
houseparents at nonprofit educational institutions
Excluded
yes
Condition
employed with the person's spouse by a nonprofit educational institution to serve as the parents of a child who is an orphan, one of whose natural parents is deceased, or who is enrolled in and resides in residential facilities of the institution, if the employee and spouse reside in residential facilities of the institution and receive, without cost, board and lodging from the institution
Category
executive, administrative, or professional employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity
Category
outside salespersons or collectors
Excluded
yes
Condition
employed as an outside salesperson or collector and paid a commission
Category
elected officials and legislative body members
Excluded
yes
Condition
performs services for a political subdivision as an elected official or as a member of a legislative body
Category
domestic employment
Excluded
yes
Condition
performs domestic services in or about a private home, including a person who performs the duties of baby-sitting in or out of the employer's home; or lives in or about a private home and furnishes personal care for a resident of the home
Category
youths under 18
Excluded
yes
Condition
is less than 18 years of age and is not a high school graduate or a graduate of a vocational training program, other than a person who is employed in agriculture and whose pay is computed on a piece rate
Category
students under 20
Excluded
yes
Condition
is less than 20 years of age and is a student regularly enrolled in a high school, college, university, or vocational training program, other than a person who is employed in agriculture and whose pay is computed on a piece rate
Category
persons with a disability in cooperative school-work program
Excluded
yes
Condition
has a disability and who is: not more than 21 years of age; a client of vocational rehabilitation; and participating in a cooperative school-work program
Category
inmates
Excluded
yes
Condition
performs services while imprisoned in the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or while confined in a local jail
Category
certain family members
Excluded
yes
Condition
employment of the employer's brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, child, spouse, parent, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, ward, or person in loco parentis to the employee
Category
amusement or recreational establishment employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
employment in an amusement or recreational establishment that does not operate for more than seven months in a calendar year; or had average receipts for any six months of the preceding calendar year of not more than 33-1/3 percent of its average receipts for the other six months of the year
Category
employees of employers not contributing to unemployment compensation fund
Excluded
yes
Condition
An employer that is not liable for payment of contributions to the unemployment compensation fund under Subtitle A, Title 4, is exempt from this chapter, except with respect to employment of a person in agriculture
Category
dairy farming employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
employment of a person in dairy farming
Category
livestock production employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
Sections 62.051-62.054 do not apply to an agricultural employer with respect to an employee engaged in the production of livestock
Except as provided by Section 62.057, an employer shall pay to each employee the federal minimum wage under Section 6, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 206). … An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to the employment of a person who is:
(1) a member of a religious order while the person is performing a service for or at the direction of the order;
(2) a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister, priest, rabbi, sexton, or Christian Science reader while the person is performing services in that capacity for a church, synagogue, or religious organization;
(3) engaged in the activities of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization in which:
(A) the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist; or
(B) the services are rendered to the organization gratuitously;
(4) employed by the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of America, or a local organization affiliated with those organizations;
(5) employed by a camp of a religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organization; or
(6) employed with the person's spouse by a nonprofit educational institution to serve as the parents of a child: … An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to the employment of a person:
(1) employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity;
(2) employed as an outside salesperson or collector and paid a commission; or
(3) who performs services for a political subdivision as an elected official or as a member of a legislative body. … An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to the employment of a person who:
(1) performs domestic services in or about a private home, including a person who performs the duties of baby-sitting in or out of the employer's home; or
(2) lives in or about a private home and furnishes personal care for a resident of the home. … (1) is less than 18 years of age and is not a high school graduate or a graduate of a vocational training program, other than a person who is employed in agriculture and whose pay is computed on a piece rate;
(2) is less than 20 years of age and is a student regularly enrolled in a high school, college, university, or vocational training program, other than a person who is employed in agriculture and whose pay is computed on a piece rate; or
(3) has a disability and who is:
(A) not more than 21 years of age;
(B) a client of vocational rehabilitation; and
(C) participating in a cooperative school-work program. … An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to the employment of a person who performs services while imprisoned in the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or while confined in a local jail. … An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to employment of the employer's brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, child, spouse, parent, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, ward, or person in loco parentis to the employee. … An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to employment in an amusement or recreational establishment that:
(1) does not operate for more than seven months in a calendar year; or
(2) had average receipts for any six months of the preceding calendar year of not more than 33-1/3 percent of its average receipts for the other six months of the year. … An employer that is not liable for payment of contributions to the unemployment compensation fund under Subtitle A, Title 4, is exempt from this chapter, except with respect to employment of a person in agriculture. … (a) An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to employment of a person in dairy farming.
(b) Sections 62.051-62.054 do not apply to an agricultural employer with respect to an employee engaged in the production of livestock.