Minimum Wage 2024 California By City. Proposition 32 would raise the minimum wage to $17 for the remainder of 2024, and $18 an hour starting in january 2025 — a bump from the current $16. Now, california voters are being asked to boost the statewide minimum wage again, just two years after the landmark $15 wage championed by unions and.

Fast food restaurant employers, effective april 1, 2024, and healthcare facility employers, effective june 1, 2024, will have a higher minimum wage. If a business has more than 26 employees, the minimum wage still remains.