Minimum Wage In California 2024 Increase 2024. California’s minimum wage law for health care workers is set to take effect in october 2024, raising pay for employees at hospitals and clinics. California proposition 32 would raise the state minimum wage from $16 to $18 anhour starting in january.
Opponents of proposition 32 to increase the statewide minimum wage to $18 an hour are running ads focused on the cost of living. In 2016, unions were instrumental in muscling political support for a series of minimum wage increases that made california the first state in the nation to require $15 an.