The electric power steering apparatus according to the present invention sets the biasing force of a biasing member for biasing a rack retainer toward a rack bar so that steering torque increases as the rotational speed of a steering wheel increases in a region before the start of the relative movement of the rack bar with respect to the rack retainer in a two-axis coordinate system where the horizontal axis represents the rotational speed of the steering wheel and the vertical axis represents the steering torque.
