Minimum wage increases will take effect on January 1, 2024. Please see the below list, showing the locations where the increases will take place and the rate of increase. Please feel free to reach out to your Dedicated HR Manager to discuss further.
Alaksa - $11.73
Arizona - $14.35
- Flagstaff - $17.40
- Tucson - $14.35
California - $16.00
- Belmont - $17.35
- Burlingame - $17.03
- Cupertino - $17.75
- Daly City - $16.62
- East Palo Alto - $17.10
- El Cerrito - $17.92
- Foster City - $17.00
- Half Moon Bay - $17.01
- Hayward - $16.90 (26+ employees)
- Los Altos - $17.75
- Menlo Park - $16.70
- Mountain View - $18.75
- Novato - $16.86 (100+ employees), $16.60 (26-99 employees), $16.04 (25 employees or less)
- Oakland - $16.50 (general industry), $23.91 (hotels – no benefits), $17.94 (hotels with benefits)
- Palo Alto - $17.80
- Petaluma - $17.45
- Redwood City - $17.70
- Richmond – TBD (without benefits), State Law (with benefits)
- San Carlos - $16.87
- San Diego - $16.85
- San Jose - $17.75
- San Mateo - $17.35
- San Mateo County - $17.06
- Santa Clara - $17.75
- Santa Rosa - $17.45
- Sonoma - $17.60 (26+ employees), $16.56 (25 employees or less)
- South San Francisco - $17.25
- Sunnyvale - $18.55
Colorado - $14.42
- Boulder City - $15.69
- Denver - $18.29
- Edgewater - $15.02
Connecticut - $15.69
Delaware - $13.25
Hawaii - $14.00
Illinois - $14.00
- Cook County - $14.00
Maine - $14.15
- Portland - $15.00
- Rockland - $15.00
Maryland - $15.00
Michigan - $10.33
Minnesota - $ 10.85 (when the Company grosses $500k per year or more)
- Minneapolis - $15.75 (101+ employees)
- Paul - $15.75 (10,001+ employees)
Missouri - $12.30
Montana - $10.30
Nebraska - $12.00
New Jersey - $15.13 (general), $13.73 (small or seasonal), $12.81 (piece rate/hourly farm), $18.13 (long-term direct care staff)
New Mexico – no change to state
- Las Cruces - $12.36
New York - $16.00 (NYC, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester Counties – Service Employees), $15.00 (remainder of state - Service Employees)
Ohio - $10.45
Rhode Island - $14.00
South Dakota - $11.20
Vermont - $13.67
Washington - $16.28
- SeaTac - $19.71 (Schedule 1)
- Seattle - $19.97 (Schedule 1), $17.25 (Schedule 2)
- Tukwila - $20.29 (501+ employees), $18.29 (all smaller)
Exempt Employee Pay Changes
The following states have pay requirements that are: 1) changing on January 1, 2024; and 2) will exceed the minimum amount employers must currently pay exempt employees under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), i.e., $684 per week or $35,568 annually.
Alaska - $938.40 per week.
California - $1,280 per week.
- $9,646.96 per month – Computer Employees
- $144 per hour – Instructors at Non-Profit Higher Education Institutes
- $101.22 per hour – Licensed Physicians and Surgeons
Colorado - $1,057.69 per week. Highly compensated employees: $123,750 per year.
- $33.17 per hour - Computer Employees
Maine - $42,450.20 per year.
New York - $1,200 per week in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties. $1,124.20 per week in the remainder of the state.
Washington State - $1,302.40 per week (employers with 50 or fewer employees).
- $56.98 per hour - Computer Employees
Commissioned Employees: To qualify under the FLSA’s 7(i) overtime exception, the regular rate of pay for an employee of a retail or service establishment must exceed 1.5 times the federal minimum wage, and more than half the employee’s compensation for a representative period (not less than one month) must represent commissions on goods or services.
In the following states with upcoming January 1, 2024 rate changes, the 7(i)-type exemption requires – in part – an employee’s pay to either equal or exceed 1.5 times the state minimum wage:
California – 1.5 x $16.00
Colorado – 1.5x $14.42
Connecticut – 2 x $15.69
Minnesota – 1.5 x $10.85 or $8.85, depending on the employer’s gross sales
New York (Possibly) – 1.5 x $16 or $15, depending on location
Washington – 1.5 x $16.28
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