City and county minimum wages

29 cities and counties in 8 states set a minimum wage above their state's. Each row below was read from the jurisdiction's own ordinance page on October 17, 2026; a jurisdiction appears only if that page could be fetched and stated every figure shown. The highest general rate is $21.78 in Burien; the federal floor is $7.25.

Where an ordinance sets tiers by employer size, the table shows the highest tier and the page shows all of them. Industry rates (hotels, healthcare) are noted on the pages, never listed as rows. 38 further jurisdictions whose official pages refused or could not be found by a scripted fetch are listed at the end.

How to read the table

The local rate is the general rate for the largest employer tier where an ordinance has tiers; the jurisdiction page lists each tier with who it applies to, in the ordinance's words. "In effect since" is the date the current rate took effect. The state rate is the first basic rate DOL lists for the state (state table); where the state has no rate or is below the federal$7.25, the federal rate applies to FLSA-covered employers. Where federal, state and local laws all cover a job, the highest applicable rate must be paid.

"By formula" means the ordinance states an annual adjustment (usually a consumer price index) without a published amount; the jurisdiction posts the figure before it takes effect, and this site re-reads the page. Rows older than twelve months fail the data watch and are removed until re-verified.

Jurisdictions not yet listed

These official pages were tried on October 17, 2026 and could not be read by a scripted fetch, so no figure from them appears here. They are retried on each refresh.

• SeaTac, WA: HTTP 403 (both User-Agents)
• Tukwila, WA: HTTP 403
• Renton, WA: HTTP 403
• Everett, WA: HTTP 403
• King County (unincorporated), WA: HTTP 404; no page found in the site map
• Edgewater, CO: HTTP 403
• Minneapolis, MN: HTTP 200 but the rate is rendered by script; no figure in the HTML
• Santa Fe (city), NM: HTTP 404; no page found in the site map
• Santa Fe County, NM: HTTP 404
• Bernalillo County, NM: HTTP 404
• Tucson, AZ: HTTP 403
• Montgomery County, MD: HTTP 404; no page found in the site map
• Prince George's County, MD: HTTP 403
• Portland, ME: HTTP 200 but the page body is rendered by script; no figure in the HTML
• Alameda, CA: HTTP 403
• Belmont, CA: HTTP 403
• Berkeley, CA: HTTP 404; no page found in the site map
• Cupertino, CA: HTTP 403
• Daly City, CA: redirects to the municipal code host, HTTP 403
• Emeryville, CA: HTTP 403
• Fremont, CA: HTTP 403
• Los Altos, CA: HTTP 403
• Menlo Park, CA: HTTP 403
• Mountain View, CA: HTTP 403
• Novato, CA: HTTP 403
• Oakland, CA: HTTP 403
• Palo Alto, CA: HTTP 403
• Pasadena, CA: HTTP 200 but the current rate appears only in a PDF notice
• Petaluma, CA: HTTP 403
• Redwood City, CA: HTTP 403
• San Diego, CA: HTTP 200 but the landing page carries no rate; sub-pages not found
• San Jose, CA: HTTP 403
• San Mateo (city), CA: HTTP 404; no page found in the site map
• Santa Clara, CA: HTTP 403
• Santa Rosa, CA: HTTP 403
• South San Francisco, CA: HTTP 403
• Sunnyvale, CA: HTTP 403
• West Hollywood, CA: HTTP 403

Related

• Minimum wage by state and the federal minimum wage.
• Federal versus state minimum wage and tipped wages and tip credits.
• Take-home pay calculator on FastCalc; this site computes nothing.

This page describes published rates and is not legal advice; which law covers a particular job is a question for the agency or a lawyer. See FastGuide for how to raise an underpayment.