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Statewide Minimum Wage

On January 1, 2025 California’s minimum wage will increase to $16.50 per hour for all employers regardless of size.

Exempt Employee Minimum Salaries and Wages

The minimum salary threshold for exempt employees (two times the STATE minimum wage) will increase to $1,320 per week ($68,640 per year).

The minimum rate for exempt computer software employees is $56.97 per hour. The minimum monthly salary exemption is $9,888.13 and the minimum annual salary is $118,657.43. 

Check the local city website for mid-year updates. Click on the city to be directed to their website. (updated with July 1, 2025 wage) 

Municipal minimum hourly wage: 

• Alameda: $17.46
• Belmont: $18.30
• Berkeley: $19.18
• Burlingame: $17.43
• Cupertino: $18.20
• Daly City: $17.07
• El Cerrito: $18.34 
• Emeryville:$19.90
• Foster City: $17.39
• Fremont: $17.75
• Half Moon Bay: $17.47
• Hayward: $17.36 (26 or more employees) $16.50 (1-25 employees)
• Long Beach: (Hotels with 100 or more guest rooms) $18.16
• Los Altos: $18.20
• Los Angeles City: $17.87 - Check your address here:  https://neighborhoodinfo.lacity.org/

• Los Angeles City Hotels (Hotels with 60 or more guest rooms) $21.01
• Los Angeles County $17.81 - Check your address here:  https://www.lavote.gov/apps/precinctsmaps 

• Malibu: $17.27
• Menlo Park $17.10
• Milpitas: $18.20
• Mountain View: $19.20
• Novato: $16.50 (1-25 employees) $17.00 (26-99 employees) $17.27 (100 or more employees)
• Oakland: $16.89
• Palo Alto: $18.20
• East Palo Alto: $17.45
• Pasadena: $18.04
• Petaluma: $17.97
• Redwood City: $18.20
• Richmond: $17.77
• San Carlos: $17.32
• San Diego: (city) $17.25
• San Francisco: $19.18
• San Jose: $17.95
• San Leandro: $16.50- State minimum wage since there has been no scheduled increase
• San Mateo: (city) $17.95
• San Mateo (county) $17.46
• Santa Clara: $18.20
• Santa Monica: $17.81
• Santa Monica (hotels) $22.50
• Santa Rosa: $17.87
• Sonoma: $18.02 (26 or more employees) $16.96 (25 or fewer)
• South San Francisco: $17.70
• Sunnyvale: $19.00
• West Hollywood  $19.65
• West Hollywood (Hotel workers) $20.22

Notice/Posting Requirements

Each of the above local minimum wage ordinances have notice, posting and recordkeeping requirements. Failure to comply with these obligations may subject you to fines, penalties or even civil action. Make sure you post them in areas that can be seen by all employees. You should provide a physical copy of the poster to your remote employees as well. 

AB 5 - ABC Test

For a worker to be properly classified as an independent contractor (sometimes called a “1099 contractor” or “1099 employee”), they must pass certain tests under federal and state law. 

California employers have been subject to the “ABC test” since April of 2018 because of a California Supreme Court ruling. 

Effective January 1, 2020, the ABC test will become part of California’s statutes as well. 

The primary difference between the law made by the Supreme Court ruling and the law as of January 1 is that the new statute includes certain types of workers that will not be subject to the ABC test, but instead the less strict Borello test.

AB 2257 was signed on September 4, 2020 to address items with AB 5.  AB 5 restores some of the freedom to freelancers. There are now more than 75 exceptions to California's independent contracting ban. 

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