Starting in January, workers throughout the Bay Area will receive a higher minimum wage than they did last year.
For instance, come Jan. 1, workers in Santa Clara will earn $17.20 per hour, an increase from the city’s previous minimum wage of $16.40 in 2022.
That increase is due to a plan approved by the Santa Clara City Council in 2017, which determined that the city’s local minimum wage would reach $15.00 an hour by 2019 and would be adjusted annually based on the regional Consumer Price Index afterward.
The regional Consumer Price Index is intended to reflect how wages should be adjusted for inflation and is determined by