1 A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
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. For sheepherders, however, effective July 1, 2002, the minimum wage was set at $1,200.00 per month.
Santa Monica, California Local Minimum Wage for 2016, 2017. While California's state minimum wage is $10.50 per hour, Santa Monica has set its own, higher minimum wage rates that apply to employees of different classes of company who work Santa Monica.