California Minimum Wage 2024 Healthcare. The wage will move up for $24 per hour starting june 1, 2025, and to $25 per hour by june 1, 2026. This bill would require, for specified clinics that meet certain requirements, the minimum wage for covered health care employees to be $21 per hour from june 1, 2024, to may 31, 2026, inclusive, and $22 per hour from june 1, 2026, to may 31, 2027,.

The state minimum wage will increase to $16 per hour starting on jan. Gavin newsome signed the legislation in october 2023, creating several minimum wage rates, depending on the nature of the facility, for covered healthcare.