{"id":2212,"date":"2025-08-26T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:24:35","slug":"californias-minimum-wage-increase-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/08\/26\/californias-minimum-wage-increase-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Minimum Wage Increase in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Accounting-Calculator-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1745\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Accounting-Calculator-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Accounting-Calculator-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Accounting-Calculator-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Starting January 1, 2026, California\u2019s minimum wage rate will rise from $16.50 to $16.90 per hour, reflecting a 2.49 percent adjustment based on federal inflation data as required by the state\u2019s annual inflation-based adjustment process.  The new state minimum wage will apply to all private employers statewide, without exception for business size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase in the minimum wage will also cause an increase in the minimum salary payable to certain exempt employees under California wage laws.  The new minimum salary will rise to an annualized $70,304 from $68,640 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fisher &amp; Phillips LLP:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisherphillips.com\/en\/news-insights\/california-minimum-wage-will-increase-in-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Minimum Wage Will Increase to $16.90 For All Businesses on January 1, 2026: What Employers Should Do Now<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ogletree Deakins:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ogletree.com\/insights-resources\/blog-posts\/californias-minimum-wage-rate-set-to-rise-to-16-90-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California\u2019s Minimum Wage Rate Set to Rise to $16.90 in 2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting January 1, 2026, California\u2019s minimum wage rate will rise from $16.50 to $16.90 per hour, reflecting a 2.49 percent adjustment based on federal inflation data as required by the state\u2019s annual inflation-based adjustment process. The new state minimum wage will apply to all private employers statewide, without exception for business size. The increase in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[239,34,35],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-239","tag-california","tag-minimum-wage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}