For expenses like rent, utilities, food, and gas, the average San Antonian pays $1,429 every month.1 This puts San Antonio on the more affordable end of our list of cities with the highest living costs. It also makes San Antonio more affordable than many other Texas cities like Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington. The bad news is San Antonio’s minimum wage is only $7.25 an hour,2 the lowest it’s legally allowed to be. This means that—despite San Antonio’s relatively low living costs—it’s still pretty unlivable if you only make minimum wage. For our report on the worst cities for minimum wage earners, we found that you’d have to work roughly 120 hours a month making minimum wage in San Antonio just to pay rent.3