The History of California Minimum Wage

History of California Minimum Wage

effective date new minimum wage old mimimum wage amount of increase percentage of increase over previous wage January 1, 2008 $8.00 $7.50 $0.50 6.7 percent January 1, 2007 $7.50 $6.75 $0.75 11.1 percent January 1, 2002 $6.75 $6.25 $0.50 8.00 percent January 1, 2001 $6.25 $5.75 $0.50 8.70 percent March 1, 1998 $5.75 $5.15 $0.60 11.65 percent September 1, 1997 $5.15 $5.00 $0.15 3.00 percent March 1, 1997 $5.00 $4.75 $0.25 5.26 percent October 1, 1996 $4.75 $4.25 $0.50 11.76 percent July 1, 1988 $4.25 $3.35 $0.90 26.87 percent January 1, 1981 $3.35 $3.10 $0.25 8.06 percent January 1, 1980 $3.10 $2.90 $0.20 6.90 percent January 1, 1979 $2.90 $2.65 $0.25 9.43 percent April 1, 1978 $2.65 $2.50 $0.15 6.00 percent October 18, 1976 $2.50 $2.00 $0.50 25.00 percent March 4, 1974 $2.00 $1.65 $0.35 21.21 percent February 1, 1968 $1.65 $1.30 $0.35 26.92 percent August 30, 1964 $1.30 $1.25 $0.05 4.00 percent August 30, 1963 $1.25 $1.00 $0.25 25.00 percent November 15, 1957 $1.00 $0.75 $0.25 33.33 percent August 1, 1952 $0.75 $0.65 $0.10 15.38 percent June 1, 1947 $0.65 $0.45 $0.20 44.44 percent February 8, 1943 $0.45 $0.33 $0.12 36.36 percent 1920 $0.33 $0.28 $0.05 17.86 percent 1919 $0.28 $0.21 $0.07 33.33 percent 1918 $0.21 $0.16 $0.05 31.25 percent 1916 $0.16 - - - Source: California DLSE.

Comments

[student at cal poly pomona]

You misspelled "minimum" in the second column. This leads me to believe that the rest of the information is incorect.

[student at cal poly pomona]

misspelled the word "minimum" in the second column

[michael walsh]

We didn't misspell anything, because we didn't spell anything. We cut and pasted a chart from the DLSE. Click the link and you'll see the original source. The way it was cut and pasted, we cannot edit spelling, or for that matter, anything, out of the original. Sorry.

We'd say nice catch, except you misspelled "incorrect."

[student at a better school]

That's what you get when you let Cal Poly peeps post anonymously.