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Two fast food workers share how their pay stacks up against California’s high living costs. Minimum wage in California is going up again in 2024. Is it enough to live on?
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]
One of these employers offers nearly $29 an hour.
Fast-food workers and minimum-wage workers in more than 30 California cities will be seeing a pay increase in 2024.
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.
California's ballot measure, Proposition 32, would raise the state’s current minimum wage of $16 to $17 for the remainder of 2024 for employers with at least 26 employees, increasing to $18 per hour starting in January 2025. Without it, the state's minimum wage is set to increase to $16.50 per hour next year.
Over nine years, the wage would then increase 3.5% annually until it reached $25 an hour in 2033. Community clinics would follow a schedule of $21 an hour in 2024, $22 an hour in 2026 and $25 an ...
California's $20 minimum wage raised prices by just 3.7% and did not reduce jobs, per Berkeley study. ... its implementation in April 2024 found California’s fast food menu prices rose over 10% ...