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Verified City And County Minimum Wage Pages (2026)

Reviewed by Kevin Marshall, CPA

These pages cover the subset of city and county wage ordinances that ExactTakeHome verified against both the UC Berkeley Labor Center inventory and a working official local-government source in this pass. Jurisdictions with blocked PDFs, weak HTML, or unclear tier handling were left unpublished for manual review instead of guessed.

How this verified batch works

City and county minimum wages change on different calendars than statewide floors. Some update on January 1, others on July 1, and some publish multiple employer-size or industry-specific rates. For this batch, every published page had to clear two checks: Berkeley had to list the ordinance, and the current rate had to be visible on an official city or county source we could inspect cleanly.

Each page links back to the state minimum wage page, the state paycheck calculator, and the matching city salary guide when one already exists in the repo. That keeps the new pages in the same answer-first network as the rest of the site.

Verified local minimum wage pages

Berkeley$19.61 per hourCaliforniaBurlingame$17.86 per hourCaliforniaDaly City$17.50 per hourCaliforniaEast Palo Alto$17.90 per hourCaliforniaEl Cerrito$18.82 per hourCaliforniaLos Angeles$18.42 per hourCaliforniaLos Angeles County (unincorporated)$18.47 per hourCaliforniaLos Altos$18.70 per hourCaliforniaMalibu$17.91 per hourCaliforniaMenlo Park$17.55 per hourCaliforniaMilpitas$18.50 per hourCaliforniaSan Francisco$19.61 per hourCaliforniaSan Jose$18.45 per hourCaliforniaSan Mateo$18.60 per hourCaliforniaSanta Clara$18.70 per hourCaliforniaSunnyvale$19.50 per hourCaliforniaWest Hollywood$20.25 per hour for non-hotel employeesCaliforniaChicago$17.05 per hourIllinoisCook County$15.40 per hourIllinoisDenver$19.29 per hourColoradoHoward County$16.00 per hourMarylandMinneapolis$16.37 per hourMinnesotaSeattle$21.30 per hourWashingtonAlameda$17.76 per hourCaliforniaBelmont$18.95 per hourCaliforniaEmeryville$20.34 per hourCaliforniaFremont$18.05 per hourCaliforniaHalf Moon Bay$17.91 per hourCaliforniaHayward$17.79 per hour for large employers (26+ employees)CaliforniaMountain View$19.70 per hourCaliforniaNovato$17.46 per hour for large employers (26–99 employees)CaliforniaOakland$17.34 per hourCaliforniaRedwood City$18.65 per hourCaliforniaRichmond$19.18 per hourCaliforniaSan Carlos$17.75 per hourCaliforniaSan Mateo County (unincorporated)$17.95 per hourCaliforniaSanta Monica$18.47 per hourCaliforniaSanta Rosa$18.21 per hourCaliforniaSonoma$18.47 per hour for large employers (26+ employees)CaliforniaSouth San Francisco$18.15 per hourCaliforniaCupertino$18.70 per hourCaliforniaSan Diego$17.75 per hourCaliforniaPasadena$18.57 per hourCaliforniaPetaluma$18.31 per hourCaliforniaBellingham$19.13 per hourWashingtonBoulder$16.82 per hourColoradoEverett$20.77 per hour for large employers (500+ employees)WashingtonKing County (unincorporated)$20.82 per hourWashingtonLas Cruces$13.01 per hourNew MexicoMontgomery County$18.00 per hour for large employers (51+ employees)MarylandPortland$16.75 per hourMaineRenton$21.57 per hour for large employersWashingtonTukwila$21.65 per hour for covered large employersWashingtonFlagstaff$18.35 per hourArizonaTucson$15.45 per hourArizonaEdgewater$18.17 per hourColoradoSaint Paul$16.37 per hour for large employers (101–10,000 employees)MinnesotaSanta Fe$15.40 per hourNew MexicoSanta Fe County$15.40 per hourNew Mexico