California Current Minimum Wage 2024. Since 2021, california’s minimum wage has been on a path to increasing, gradually over the coming years. 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.

Here’s an explanation of the current state of the wage rate and the immediate impacts it has had on the labor landscape. California’s health care minimum wage gradually raises pay for workers at least $25 an hour.