Ten Dollars or Thirteen Dollars? Comparing the Effects of State Minimum Wage Increases in California

Sylvia A. Allegretto, Michael Reich and Rachel West

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Unexpected Economics of Minimum Wages, 2025, pp 255-282 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In September of 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 10 into law. AB10 increases California’s minimum wage - which has stood at $8 per hour since 2008 - to $9 on July 1, 2014, and to $10 on January 1, 2016. Some policymakers regard the modest increase provided by AB10 and the absence of annual adjustments for price increases as insufficient for the wellbeing of the Golden State’s lowest-paid workers. Indeed, for the first time in the state’s history a new minimum wage proposal - Senate Bill 935 sponsored by Senator Mark Leno - has been introduced in the legislature before the implementation of the already-legislated minimum wage increase (AB10). Senator Leno’s bill would increase California’s wage floor in several steps to reach $13 in January 2017, and annual cost of living adjustments would begin in 2018.

Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035358878
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