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In California, the state minimum wage as of January 1, 2024 was $16 per hour. [6] [note 1] As of July 2024, California had the highest minimum wage of any state and was the highest in the country except for some part of New York (which also have a $16/hour minimum wage) and the District of Columbia (which has a minimum wage of $17.50/hour). [9]
Fast-food workers and minimum-wage workers in more than 30 California cities will be seeing a pay increase in 2024.
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50 on January 1.
Starting in 2024, California will have the second highest statewide minimum wage behind Washington, which is more than double the stagnant $7.25 an hour federal limit. ... But in a state crippled ...
New York City's minimum wage for companies with 11 or more employees became $15.00 per hour on December 31, 2018. [197] On the same day, NYC's hourly minimum wage for companies with 10 or fewer employees became $13.50. [197] The minimum wage in Illinois will reach $15 per hour by 2025 with increases beginning in 2020. [198]
It's $16.50 in New York City, Long Island and Westchester.Rhode Island is taking its minimum up a buck to $15.00, the result of legislation.South Dakota's minimum is set to hit $11.50 in 2025, up ...
The federal minimum wage in the US hasn’t changed from the hourly rate of $7.25 in over 14 years. But 22 states and 40 cities increased their own minimum wages to ring in the New Year.