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Topic: minimum-wage

The California State Capitol building in Sacramento

Friday, 7/31, 04:55 PM

California's Minimum Wage Goes to $17.40 in January, and Most LA Workers Are Already Above It

The statewide floor rises 50 cents on January 1, 2027, the highest state minimum in the country.
It is an automatic inflation adjustment, not new legislation, and in Los Angeles it will mostly change nothing, because local ordinances and the fast-food law already sit above it.

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