Payroll services for Texas businesses.

Your Payroll Specialist runs each pay run, with Delphi AI preparing and checking it in the background, and you approve it before anyone is paid. The Payroll Specialist handles new hires, leave, changes, and terminations, applies federal withholding and the Texas paydays and deduction rules, and posts the run to your books, so wages, deductions, and leave balances agree every month.

Your payroll team works 9am to 5pm Eastern Time on business days, all year round. Outside those hours, the Visory platform is your 24/7 access point, so your payroll information is there whenever you need it.

No. The Texas Constitution bars the legislature from taxing the net incomes of individuals, so there is no state income tax to withhold for work done in Texas, and employers withhold federal income tax only. Staff who work in another state may have that state’s tax withheld. This is general information; the Texas Comptroller and the IRS set the rules for your business.

Employees exempt from federal overtime rules are paid at least once a month, and everyone else at least twice a month, on paydays you designate and post in the workplace. If you designate none, the paydays are the 1st and the 15th. This is general information; the Texas Workforce Commission enforces the Texas Payday Law.

An employee who is discharged is paid in full by the sixth day after discharge. An employee who quits or leaves for any other reason is paid by the next regularly scheduled payday. Your Payroll Specialist runs the final pay to whichever deadline applies, including any commission or bonus due under the employee’s agreement. This is general information; the Texas Workforce Commission enforces the rules.

Report the new hire to the Child Support Division of the Office of the Attorney General within 20 calendar days from the date they start earning wages. Rehires are reported too, and so is anyone required to fill out a Form W-4. Your Payroll Specialist prepares the report when the employee is set up, before the first pay run.

Tax is paid on the first $9,000 of each employee’s wages a year. A new employer pays the greater of 2.6% or its industry’s average rate less 0.1 percentage point, plus a 0.1% training assessment, so the starting rate is at least 2.7%: up to $243 per employee at that rate. The tax cannot be deducted from wages. This is general information; the Texas Workforce Commission sets the rules.

Texas adopts the federal minimum wage by reference rather than setting its own figure, so employers pay at least $7.25 an hour. Tipped employees, who customarily and regularly receive more than $20 a month in tips, may be paid a cash wage of $2.13 when tips make up the rest. The state minimum wage supersedes any wage a local ordinance sets for private employment, other than wages under a public contract, so the floor is the same in every Texas city. This is general information; the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division enforces the federal minimum wage that Texas adopts.

Only with a court order, under state or federal law, or with the employee’s written authorization for a lawful purpose, so benefit premiums, equipment charges, and repayments of an advance are deducted only with that consent. Your Payroll Specialist keeps the signed authorization with the deduction in the payroll file. This is general information; the Texas Workforce Commission enforces the Texas Payday Law.