Wages rise first to $18 for rural facilities and $23 for large hospitals, with all covered workers reaching $25 by 2028.

Some of the lowest-paid health care workers in California will get a pay bump Wednesday under a state law gradually increasing their wages to at least $25 an hour. Workers at rural, independent health care facilities will start making a minimum of $18 an hour,

Hundreds of thousands of health care workers in California are finally getting a pay raise that will gradually increase their minimum wage to $25.