Texas Minimum Wage 2025 Increase. Rates, exemptions, compliance, enforcement, and future trends for fair and legal workplace practices. Minimum wage employees in 22 states are receiving raises in 2025 as new legislation took effect to start the year โ but the lone star state was not one of them.
Texas is among the states that have. The highest state minimum wage in 2025 will be in washington, d.c., which had a minimum wage of $17.50 effective july 2025 with another increase to be calculated in july.