The city of Oakland’s minimum wage is currently $17.34 an hour, higher than the minimum wage for the state of California, currently $16.90 an hour, but still not enough to support Dorsey. Now, he is part of a campaign to almost double California’s minimum wage to $30. Despite widespread public support for minimum wage increases, the federal minimum wage still sits at $7.25 an hour, a rate last increased in 2009. We doubled the minimum wage in between 2013 and 2019 and we think it’s time to do that again.”Mamdani ran on a platform that included raising the city’s minimum wage to $30 an hour by 2030. According to MIT’s living wage calculator, a living wage for a single adult with no dependents in New York City is currently $31.50 an hour.

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2026 15:31 UTC