California Minimum Wage 2025. California proposition 32, the $18 minimum wage initiative, is on the ballot in california as an initiated state statute on november 5, 2025. This year, california has decided that the minimum wage increase will include an inflation adjustment of 3.5 percent for all employees.

Small businesses with 25 or fewer. 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.