New Minimum Wage 2024 California Fast Food. Gavin newsom stands with cheering fast food. The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20.
Fast food restaurant owners are scrambling to absorb a dramatic jump in labor costs after a new california law boosted the hourly wage for fast food workers on april 1 from $16 to. The average hourly wage in 2022 was $16.21.