Is your local minimum wage increasing in 2022?

Posted November 1, 2021

Minimum wage rates don’t just affect companies and employees at the federal and state levels. Some cities have their own minimum wage rates, and most go up on an annual basis. This increase means a pay raise for workers and a posting change for employers.

Most local minimum wage increases occur on January 1 or July 1, and employers should display the updated poster when a change occurs.

Here are the local minimum wage rate increases announced so far for 2022:

January 1, 2022, minimum wage updates

California

• Belmont
• Cupertino
• Daly City
• East Palo Alto
• El Cerrito
• Half Moon Bay
• Hayward
• Los Altos
• Menlo Park
• Mountain View
• Novato
• Oakland
• Palo Alto
• Petaluma
• Redwood City
• Richmond
• San Carlos
• San Diego
• San Francisco
• San Jose
• San Mateo
• Santa Clara
• Santa Rosa
• Sonoma
• South San Francisco
• Sunnyvale

New Mexico

• Albuquerque
• Bernalillo county
• Las Cruces

Washington

• Seattle

July 1, 2022, minimum wage updates

California

• Alameda
• Berkeley
• Emeryville
• Fremont
• Los Angeles
• Milpitas
• Pasadena
• San Francisco
• San Leandro
• Santa Monica

Illinois

• Chicago
• Cook County

This article was written by Terri Dougherty of J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.