These are the cities with the highest minimum wage in California in 2024
Several cities in California are preparing to increase the minimum wage in 2024. Here are the areas that will see the biggest hikes in the base salary.
The state of California has the highest minimum wage nationwide. According to official figures, the Golden State has a state average of $15.50 per hour, which will increase by 2024 to $16 per hour. This is well above the national standard, which is $7.25.
The minimum wage in California is more than double the national level thanks to the fact that the state, led by Gavin Newsom, has passed legislation to implement annual increases, with the aim of avoiding the decrease in the purchasing power of its residents when the inflation rate is high. However, because the cost of living in each of the cities differs, local governments are also preparing for a new adjustment.
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These are the cities with the highest minimum wage in California in 2024
In several of these cities, the minimum wage will exceed the statewide average. There will be certain areas where workers will be able to earn almost $19 per hour. The California cities that will have the highest minimum wages are Sunnyvale and Mountain View, which will increase pay from $17.95 to $18.55 and from $18.15 to $18.75 per hour, respectively.
Although these will be the cities with the highest minimum wage, there are many others where there will also be increases that will result in wages exceeding $16. Here is the list of cities that will raise the minimum wage starting in January 2024, as well as the respective figures.
- Belmont: Will increase from $16.75 to $17.35 per hour
- Burlingame: from $16.47 to $17.03
- Cupertino: from $17.20 to $17.75
- Daly City: from $16.07 to $16.62
- East Palo Alto: from $16.50 to $17
- El Cerrito: from $17.35 to $17.92
- Foster City: from $16.50 to $17
- Half Moon Bay: from $16.45 to $17.01
- Hayward: $16.34 to $16.90 for large businesses and $15.50 to $16 for small businesses
- Los Altos: from $17.20 to $17.75
- Menlo Park: from $16.20 to $16.70
- Mountain View: from $18.15 to $18.75
- Newbie: from $16.32 to $16.86 for companies with +100 employees, from $16.07 to $16.60 for businesses with 26 - 99 employees and from $15.53 to $16.04 for businesses with 1-25 employees
- Oakland: from $15.97 to $16.50
- Palo Alto: from $17.25 to $17.80
- Petaluma: from $17.06 to $17.45
- Redwood City: from $17.00 to $17.70
- Richmond: from $16.17 to $17.20
- San Carlos: $16.32 to $16.87
- San Diego: $16.30 to $16.85
- San Jose: $17.00 to $17.55
- San Mateo: $16.75 to $17.35
- San Mateo County: $17.06
- Santa Clara: from $17.20 to $17.75
- Santa Rosa: from $17.06 to $17.45
- Sonoma: $17.00 to $17.60 for businesses with 26+ employees and $16.00 to $16.56 for businesses with 25 or fewer employees
- South San Francisco: $16.70 to $17.25
- Sunnyvale: from $17.95 $18.55
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Other states that will increase the minimum wage in 2024
In addition to California, a total of 23 states in the country will make adjustments to their minimum wage.
Twenty of them will put the new rates into place beginning in January 2024, while the rest will do so around mid year.