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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]
Minimum wage rate is automatically adjusted annually based on the U.S. Consumer Price Index. Income from tips cannot offset an employee's pay rate while same minimum wage applied for both tipped and non-tipped employees. The state minimum wage for business with less than $110,000 in annual sales is $4.00. [1] [264] Nebraska: $13.50 [265] $2.13
In California, the minimum wage has been raised in stages since 2016, starting from a rate of $10 per hour, and will reach $15 per hour in 2022. [80] Several cities in California have already raised the minimum wage to $15 or more, including Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Mountain View, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, and Sunnyvale. [81]
This would increase the minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026, up from the current rate of $16 per hour for most people. Fast food workers already got a pay boost this year to at least $20 an hour, and some health care workers now make a minimum of $23 an hour. If approved, California would have the country’s highest statewide minimum wage.
In recent years, California has raised its minimum wage in an effort to offset increased costs for housing, gas and other necessities. In April, fast-food restaurants in the state with 60 or more ...
Voters in California have rejected a ballot measure that would have raised the state minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026, the highest in the country. ... The current minimum wage rates are $16 ...
In California the hourly average wage for cashiers was $16.81. The state has the most people working as cashiers at 390,590. The current minimum wage in California is $15.50.
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.