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As of October 2023, France has the highest hourly minimum wage at $13.80 per hour. [1] The United States has a comparatively low minimum wage for hourly workers at $7.25 per hour. Unusually, this rate does not apply to tipped employees, who are only entitled to an hourly wage of $2.13, which contributes to a strong tipping culture in the country.
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]
[6] State level rates are calculated using various methods including an average of all wage rates paid, the mode, or based on collectively bargained rates. The H-1B visa program requires employers to "pay the prevailing wage or the actual wage paid by the employer to workers with similar skills and qualifications, whichever is higher". [7]
Proposition 32 will ask California voters if the statewide minimum wage should be increased to $18 an hour. The current minimum wage in California is $16 an hour and adjusts for inflation.
One of these employers offers nearly $29 an hour.
The owner of the Sacramento County franchise is laying off delivery drivers to avoid paying the $20 an hour rate required by a new state law for fast-food workers. Other exemptions to new fast ...
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.
California’s fast food workers will have a minimum wage of $20 per hour. He signed AB 1228 Thursday morning, culminating a yearslong campaign by workers and advocates to increase pay and improve ...