Mercy Starlin

Minimum Wage California 2024 Yearly Cost. 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. But people living on minimum wage in as expensive a state as california cannot go without crafting a realistic but unforgiving budget.

California’s 2025 minimum wage will increase to $16.50 per hour for all employers, regardless of size, from $16 per hour. 1, 2025, in an aug.