California's 2026 wage bump promises relief for workers, but rising costs and regional differences complicate whether the ...

California's Department of Finance has announced a significant increase in the state's minimum wage, set to rise to $16.90 ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1228 into law in September 2023, which established a Fast Food Council within California's Department of Industrial Relations and increased the ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- One Southern California city will soon have the highest minimum wage in the nation as its city council passed a motion to increase it to $17.64 an hour. West Hollywood's ...

The new year is upon us and minimum wage workers in California will soon be getting a small pay raise. Minimum wage in the state, which is currently $15.50 an hour for all employers, will increase to ...

While workers across many jurisdictions have already seen minimum wage increases with the start of the year, thousands more across over a dozen cities and states will see a pay bump heading into July ...

California's Department of Finance has confirmed a new increase in the state's minimum wage, a measure that will directly ...

On Tuesday, San Diego City Councilmembers will vote on a raise for some San Diego hospitality industry workers. The ordinance ...

The San Diego City Council agreed Tuesday to raise the minimum wage for some hospitality workers in the city to $25 an hour, ...

On August 1, 2025, California Director of Finance Joe Stephenshaw released the calculated minimum wage adjustment for 2026, which raises the state minimum wage rate by $0.40 per hour, a 2.49 percent ...

If your wages per hour increase, and your hours worked say the same, you get more money. But, if your hours are decreased, you do not benefit from that pay raise. California still hasn’t quite figured ...

One key argument that advocates for higher minimum wages make is that they reduce racial disparities in earnings by helping ...