The hourly minimum wage for most employees in Oakland, California, will rise to $17.34 from $16.89 effective Jan. 1, 2026, according to an update on the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Employees of hotels or their contractors are subject to a separate minimum wage, which for 2026 will be $18.85 if they receive health benefits or $25.14 if they do not, according to the website<\/a>. Employers must pay at least $6.29 per hour toward health care benefits for employees and their dependents in 2026 to qualify for the lower minimum wage rate, according to the hotel worker minimum wage poster<\/a>.<\/p>\n Oakland …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hourly minimum wage for most employees in Oakland, California, will rise to $17.34 from $16.89 effective Jan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[50552,4731,3479,143,145,144,50551],"class_list":["post-91454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-covered-dependents","tag-hotels","tag-minimum-wage","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-payroll-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}