As Temperatures Rise, Local Minimum Wages Soar July 1st Is Here!
Posted July 1, 2024

For many Californians, July 1st not only signifies the true start of summertime and hotter weather (and the end of June gloom), but it is also means local minimum wage increases.

If your business has employees (including remote employees) working in the below locations, be sure their hourly wage meets or exceeds the new local rates by no later than July 1, 2024.

• Alameda: $17.00
• Berkeley: $18.67
• Emeryville: $19.36
• Fremont: $17.30
• Los Angeles City: $17.28
• Unincorporated Los Angeles County: $17.27
• Malibu: $17.27
• Milpitas: $17.70
• Pasadena: $17.50
• San Francisco: $18.67
• Santa Monica: $17.27
• Certain Long Beach, Los Angeles City, Santa Monica and West Hollywood hotel workers also have additional wage increases.

New Minimum Wage Increases For Covered Healthcare Employers

S.B. 525 was set to take effect on June 1, 2024. At the eleventh hour, on May 31, 2024, Governor Newsom signed S.B. 828 into law. S.B. 828 was an urgency measure that delayed implementation of S.B. 525 by one-month – to July 1, 2024. As of that date, covered healthcare employers will see a state-wide minimum wage increase.

Whether your business is a covered healthcare facility, and if so, which of the five wage schedule applies, is dependent on a number of factors including, among others, the type and size of the healthcare employer or contracting vendor (such as independent janitorial service employees working at a hospital). Below is a very general summary of the July 1st increases:

• Covered health care facilities, integrated health systems with 10,000 or full-time equivalent employees, covered dialysis clinics, and covered health facilities that are owned, affiliated, or operated by a county with a population of more than 5,000,000 as of January 1, 2023: $23.00;
• Covered hospitals with high populations of Medicare/Medicaid patients, covered rural independent health care facilities, and covered health care facilities that are owned, affiliated or operated by a county with a population of less than 250,000 as of January 1, 2023: $18.00;
• Covered hospitals with high populations of Medicare/Medicaid patients, covered rural independent health care facilities, and covered health care facilities that are owned, affiliated or operated by a county with a population of less than 250,000 as of January 1, 2023, and all other covered health care facilities: $21.00.

This article only addresses some of minimum wage increases that are effective each July 1st. Other cities and counties increase their wages on January 1st. Be sure to review all possible local, state and federal minimum wages laws that might apply to your employees.

For questions about employment law issues, contact the attorneys at LightGabler LLP.For questions regarding documents that are required at the time of hire or separation, contact the employment attorneys at LightGabler LLP.

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