<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phil Hany wrote:</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I live in southern California. Unless they changed the rules and didn't tell me, $8 an hour</span><i style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> is</i><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> minimum wage in California.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a recent change :-)</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm" data-mce-href="http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm">http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Effective January 1, 2008, the minimum wage in California is $8.00 per hour. It will increase to $9.00 per hour effective July 1, 2014, and to $10.00 per hour effective January 1, 2016.</em></p><div><br></br></div><div>Noah</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>