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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]
Nearly half the states in the U.S. are set for minimum wage increases on Jan. 1, which will mean a pay hike for some 9.2 million workers, according to recent data. An analysis by The Economic ...
The federal minimum wage in the US hasn’t changed from the hourly rate of $7.25 in over 14 years. But 22 states and 40 cities increased their own minimum wages to ring in the New Year.
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50 on January 1.
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.
Proposition 32, which would have raised California's minimum wage to $18 per hour, was narrowly beaten back as only 49.2% of voters supported the proposed hike. The current minimum wage in the ...
Starting next summer, the minimum wage will rise to $23 an hour for healthcare workers in facilities with at least 10,000 “full-time equivalent employees,” according to California law. Wages ...
The state’s minimum wage has doubled since 2010, most recently increasing to $16 from $15.50 in January. Read more: With progressive ballot measures on track to fail, California's political ...