Do you know what is today's minimum wage in California?
No, but I know minimum wage is around 9 dollars in FL and that the cost of living in CA is higher. I would guess that it's 11 dollars or so.
I think they may recently have accepted $15 as the minimum wage in CA.  It makes sense from a worker's point of view, but it may help explain why corporations are leaving CA.
Wow! That sounds like a nice and potentially livable wage. I imagine it would do good for morale but it's sad to hear that corporations dislike it.
They don't just like it.  They, along with many higher income individuals, are flooding out of Texas to avoid paying the minimum wage and to avoid high corporate and individual taxes.  We are seeing a lot of them in TN.
Minimum wage in the United States
The minimum wage in the United States is set by US labor law and a range of state and local laws. Employers generally have to pay workers the highest minimum wage prescribed by federal, state, and local law. Since July 24, 2009, the federal government has mandated a nationwide minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. there were 29 states with a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum. From 2017 to 2018, eight states increased their minimum wage levels through automatic adjustments,
that. I've been through this. My husband gave workers a raise in the 1990s. I voted to raise the minimum wage and guess what, millions of jobs were created or paid better and more families were secure." She followed that statement by saying "[a]nd don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. You know that old theory, trickle-down economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly." She has described the