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California's minimum wage for large employers stands at $15 an hour. A new inflation estimate released Thursday will boost all wages for low-income workers at all businesses to $15.50 an hour on ...
The current minimum wage in California is $15.00 an hour for businesses with more than 25 employees. For companies with 25 employees or fewer, the minimum wage is $14.00.
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.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, workers in 21 states got a raise on New Year’s Day in 2022. Minimum wage increases ranged from $0.22 to $1.50 an hour, adding between $458 and $3,120 ...
As of January 3, 2022, effective state minimum wage rates range from US$7.25 to US$15.00 per hour, with an average of about $12.00 across all minimum wage workers as of 2019. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] [ 240 ] Local government minimum wages exist as well, the highest of which reach to $17.13 per hour.
In August 2022, 30 states and the District of Columbia had minimum wages higher than the federal minimum. [8] In 2019, only 1.6 million Americans earned no more than the federal minimum wage—about ~1% of workers, and less than ~2% of those paid by the hour.
One of these employers offers nearly $29 an hour.
Five states — including Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee — do not have a minimum wage, though they are subject to the federal hourly minimum wage of $7.25. 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 ...