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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]
Read more:Your guide to Proposition 32: an $18 hourly minimum wage for all Californians Proposition 33 This measure would allow cities and counties to enact rent control.
In 2024, the California Housing Partnership reported nearly half a million low-income households didn’t have access to an affordable home, adding Los Angeles renters need to earn $48.04 per hour ...
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. ... in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2024. (AP ...
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.
Proposition 33, titled Expands Local Governments’ Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property, and also marketed as the "Justice for Renters Act", was a California ballot proposition and initiative statute in the 2024 general election that would have repealed the Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act and allowed localities to enact ...
The Tenant Protection Act of 2019 caps annual rent increases at 5% plus regional inflation. [51] For example, had the bill been in effect in 2019, rent increases in Los Angeles would have been capped at 8.3%, and in San Francisco at 9%. [51] The increases are pegged to the rental rate as of March 15, 2019. [51]
Are California voters, normally progressive on labor issues, about to turn down an $18 minimum wage increase?