California Minimum Wage 2024 Increase 20. Fast food workers are losing their jobs in california as more restaurant chains prepare to meet a new $20 minimum wage set to go into effect next week. 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.

Gavin newsom has signed a law raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour. California’s health care minimum wage gradually raises pay for workers at least $25 an hour.