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Getting the Facts Straight: Texas & the Minimum Wage

  

Author:
Don Baylor /(512) 320-0222 x 108

February 24, 2005

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Until September 2001, the Texas minimum wage was $3.35 per hour. At that time, the 77th Legislature effectively raised the state minimum by eliminating a statutory dollar figure and adopting the federal minimum wage level ($5.15 per hour) by reference. The federal minimum wage is decided by Congress and the President and was last raised in 1997 to $5.15 per hour, its current level.