Minimum wage checker
Pick your state and your usual weekly hours. The tool shows the rate you are owed, what it comes to a week, a month and a year before tax, how far it sits above the $7.25 federal floor, and the next increase where an official source has published both a date and a rate.
Gross pay before federal, state and payroll tax. For net pay, use the take-home calculator.
Against the federal floor
+$9.65 an hour
Worth $386.00 more a week and $20,072 more a year than the same hours at the $7.25 federal floor, which has not moved since 24 July 2009.
Next scheduled increase
$17.40 from 1 January 2027
At 40 hours a week that becomes $696.00 a week and $36,192 a year, a rise of $1,040 on the current rate.
DIR news release 2026-66 (13 August 2026): the statewide minimum wage rises to $17.40 per hour on 1 January 2027, after the Department of Finance certified the adjustment on 31 July 2026. source
If you are tipped
California permits no tip credit. A tipped employee is owed the full $16.90 in cash wage, and tips sit on top of it. The weekly and annual figures above apply unchanged.
Tipped figures: US DOL tipped-employee table, effective 2026-07-01.
Rates that differ inside California
- A city or county ordinance can set a higher rate than the state. Los Angeles, San Francisco. Where a local rate is higher, it is the one you are owed.
Where the California figures come from
- California: An employer may not use an employee's tips as a credit toward its obligation to pay the minimum wage per hour.
Primary source for this row: California source Verified 2026-10-19. DOL state table page updated 2026-07-01. 27 of the 51 rows were read at source rather than from the DOL table alone, with 1 disagreement against DOL. Full California page