California Minimum Wage Increase July 2024. Oakland —california’s minimum wage will increase to $15.50 per hour for all employers on january 1, 2023. Some cities and counties in california have a local minimum wage that.

1, 2024, according to the department of industrial relations (dir). The director of california’s department of finance published a letter on july 31 stating that the minimum wage needed to rise by 3.5% to account for an inflation.