<prompt> Human: I live in California and will answer any questions to the best of my ability.  <response>: So I think your question is, if a company hired you for minimum wage and later gave you, lets say, a 1 raise, then minimum wage increases by 1, do they have to increase your wage 1 to reflect your previous raises? No, unfortunately thats not how it works. The only people legally guaranteed a raise are those whose wages were below the new minimum. 