California’s minimum wage to skyrocket more than $10 above nationwide pay as Gavin Newsom praises hikeNY Post ^ | 07/31/2026 | Titus WuPosted on by DFGGovernor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California’s statewide minimum wage will increase to $17.40 per hour beginning January 1, 2027. The rate is higher than any current statewide minimum wage in the nation and nearly two-and-a-half times the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Scott Meyers, who is running for Congress, told The Post, “Governor Gavin Newsom pointlessly references the low federal minimum wage in an effort to display his own virtue of raising our minimum wage to $17.40. He cleverly omits that the federal minimum wage has zero relevance in the state of California. To: DFG“The rate is higher than any current statewide minimum wage in the nation and nearly two-and-a-half times the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.”