Now that California’s minimum wage is on the road to 15 bucks per hour by 2022, let’s think about what that means for the state’s government employees and taxpayers:
Big bumps on the low end: Last year, 510 interns, student assistants, conservation corps workers and others made the hourly minimum wage (which went from $9 to $10 on July 1) or a few cents above it. Base pay for nearly 100 entry-level seasonal firefighters also started at the state’s minimum.
Those jobs will see pay gains that they would not have otherwise. Most state raises over the past decade, when there have been any, ranged from 1 percent to 3 percent annually. The law Brown signed will increase bottom-rung pay roughly 10 percent per year starting in January.
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