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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 ...
The backer of California's recently defeated minimum wage measure said he was "disappointed" but vowed to keep ... which would have raised the state's minimum wage from $16 to $18 per hour by 2026 ...
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 ...
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.
Another study on the same subject, "Early Effects of California's $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage" by Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, and Kevin Bruey, sponsored by Harvard's Malcolm Wiener Center ...
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]
In 2016, California became the first state to pass a $15 hourly minimum wage under a law signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, also a Democrat. About 40 cities and counties already have minimum wages ...
California voters narrowly rejected a minimum wage hike to $18, by a reported margin of 51-49, marking the first such failure of that type of ballot initiative since 1996.