Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
US state minimum wage rates. 2025. [12]State 2025 Alabama $7.25 [note 1] Alaska $11.91 Arizona $14.70 Arkansas $11.00 California $16.50 Colorado $14.81 Connecticut $16.35
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]
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.
A tipped employee who makes $30.00 per month or more in tips, can be paid 60% of the minimum wage, i.e. as little as $4.35 per hour. [236] Increased minimum wage laws in Johnson and Linn counties were nullified by the legislature. [237]
A fast food restaurant that “operates a bakery that produces for sale on the establishment’s premises bread,” as of Sept. 15, 2023, will be exempt from the new wage law, according to the bill.
One of these employers offers nearly $29 an hour.
California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990 added section 7872 and 7873 to the Labor Code. On September 25, 1992, AB 2601 was signed into law. [20] It protected gays and lesbians against employment discrimination. [21] California was the seventh state to add sexual orientation to laws barring job discrimination. [22]
The state’s current minimum wage is $15.50 an hour and will increase to $16 an hour on January 1. The new hourly wage for fast food workers will take effect on April 1 of next year.