Ca Minimum Wage 2025 Los Angeles California. According to ziprecruiter, the average salary in california is $62,007 a year, or $30 an hour. Proposition 32 would raise the minimum wage to $17 for the remainder of 2025, and $18 an hour starting in january 2025 — a bump from the current $16.

Employers must also take into account that. For employers with 26 or more workers, the minimum wage would reach $18 on january 1, 2025.