CALIFORNIA MINIMUM WAGE MID-YEAR RATE INCREASES

CALIFORNIA MINIMUM WAGE MID-YEAR RATE INCREASES

Effective January 1, 2024, California minimum wage increased to $16 per hour for all employers, regardless of size.

As reflected in the chart below, some California municipalities have higher minimum wage rates.  Noted in the chart, some of those will increase their local minimum wage on July 1, 2024:

City / CountyMinimum Wage Rate
Alameda (effective from July 1, 2024)$17.00
Belmont$17.35
Berkeley (effective from July 1, 2024)$18.67
Burlingame$17.03
Cupertino$17.75
Daly City$16.62
East Palo Alto$17.00
El Cerrito$17.92
Emeryville (effective from July 1, 2024)$19.36
Half Moon Bay$17.01
Foster City$17.00
Hayward$16.00 (25 or fewer employees)
$16.90 (26 or more employees)
Fremont (effective from July 1, 2024)$17.30
Los Altos$17.75
Menlo Park$16.70
Los Angeles City$17.28
Malibu (effective from July 1, 2024)$17.27
Milpitas (effective from July 1, 2024)$17.70
Mountain View$18.75
Novato$16.04 (25 or fewer employees)
$16.60 (26+ employees)
$16.86 (100+ employees)
Oakland$16.50
Palo Alto$17.80
Pasadena (effective from July 1, 2024)$17.50
Petaluma$17.45
Redwood City$17.70
Richmond$17.20
San Carlos$16.87
San Diego$16.85
San Francisco City and County (effective from July 1, 2024)$18.67
San Jose$17.55
San Mateo$17.35
San Mateo County$17.06
Santa Clara$17.75
Santa Monica (effective from July 1, 2024)$17.27
Santa Rosa$17.45
Sonoma$16.56 (25 or fewer employees)
$17.60 (26+ employees)
South San Francisco$17.25
Sunnyvale$18.55
West Hollywood$19.08

Employers must review and comply with the rules for any locality in which their employees work. The cities not reflected as changing minimum wage on July 1 make their changes on January 1 of each year. The UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education publishes regular updates.

Covered employers must review the information for their location(s) and conspicuously post the current wage notice for each applicable jurisdiction, which can be downloaded through the links above.

See also:

Helena Kobrin
Daniska Coronado
June 28, 2024

June 28, 2024

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