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What "headquartered in Texas" actually means for your paycheck

Pay frequency is governed primarily by the state where the employee physically works, not where the employer is incorporated. A company headquartered in Texas may run separate payroll calendars for staff in California, New York, or Massachusetts to comply with state-specific cadence floors. That said, the largest multi-state employers — including those listed below — typically adopt a single uniform payroll cadence across all locations to simplify administration. The most common simplification is to default to whichever cadence satisfies the strictest state minimum.

For the official state-by-state payday-requirement reference, see the U.S. Department of Labor's payday-requirements table and the NCSL summary of state payday laws. These are the canonical references HR teams use when designing multi-state payroll calendars.

Why a biweekly schedule appears here

A biweekly payroll schedule pays employees every other week, producing 26 paychecks per year. Two months out of the year contain three paydays. Biweekly is the single most common cadence in the United States and is standard for salaried employees at most large industrial, healthcare, and consumer-products employers.

Among the Texas-headquartered employers in PayPeriod Hub, the biweekly cadence appears most often at companies whose workforces concentrate in a balanced blend of hourly operations staff and salaried professionals. The pattern reflects industry structure more than state law.

All 19 Texas employers paying biweekly

CompanyIndustryPaydayCityEmployees
AT&T Telecommunications Friday Dallas 150,000
Caterpillar Industrial Manufacturing Friday Irving 109,100
Celanese Chemicals Friday Irving 13,400
Cinemark Media & Entertainment Friday Plano 17,900
Commercial Metals Industrial Manufacturing Friday Irving 12,000
ConocoPhillips Energy Friday Houston 9,900
Eagle Materials Industrial Manufacturing Friday Dallas 1,900
Energy Transfer Energy Friday Dallas 13,000
ExxonMobil Energy Friday Spring 62,000
Kimberly-Clark Consumer Goods Friday Irving 42,000
LyondellBasell Industries Chemicals Friday Houston 19,000
McKesson Healthcare & Pharma Friday Irving 51,000
Phillips 66 Energy Friday Houston 13,000
Plains GP Holdings Energy Friday Houston 4,500
Tenet Healthcare Healthcare & Pharma Friday Dallas 110,000
U.S. Concrete Industrial Manufacturing Friday Euless 2,400
Valero Energy Energy Friday San Antonio 9,885
Westlake Chemicals Friday Houston 16,500
iHeartMedia Media & Entertainment Friday San Antonio 11,665

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