California Wage Orders

California Wage Order Listings

Wage Order 1             Manufacturing Industry
Wage Order 2             Personal Services Industry
Wage Order 3             Canning, Freezing and Preserving Industry
Wage Order 4             Professional, Technical, Clerical, Mechanical and Similar Occupations
Wage Order 5             Public Housekeeping Industry
Wage Order 6             Laundry, Linen Supply, Dry Cleaning and Dyeing Industry
Wage Order 7             Mercantile Industry
Wage Order 8             Industries Handling Products After Harvest
Wage Order 9             Transportation Industry
Wage Order 10           Amusement and Recreation Industry
Wage Order 11           Broadcasting Industry
Wage Order 12           Motion Picture Industry
Wage Order 13           Industries Preparing Agricultural Products for Market, on the Farm
Wage Order 14           Agricultural Occupations
Wage Order 15           Household Occupations
Wage Order 16           On-Site Construction, Drilling, Logging and Mining Industries
Wage Order 17           Miscellaneous Employees

Wage Order 1 Manufacturing Industry: “Manufacturing industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of preparing, producing, making, altering, repairing, finishing, processing, inspecting, handling, assembling, wrapping, bottling or packaging goods, articles or commodities, in whole or in part; except when these activities are covered by orders in the:

Canning, preserving and freezing industry
Industries that handle products after harvest
Industries that prepare agricultural products for market, on the farm
Motion picture industry

Wage Order 2 Personal Services Industry: “Personal service industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of rendering, directly or indirectly, any service, operation or process used or useful in the care, cleansing or beautification of the body, skin, nails or hair, or in the enhancement of personal appearance or health; including but not limited to, beauty salons, schools of beauty culture offering beauty care to the public for a fee, barber shops, bath and massage parlors, physical conditioning, weight control salons, health clubs and mortuaries.

Wage Order 3 Canning, Freezing and Preserving Industry:
“Canning, freezing and preserving industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of canning soups, or of cooking, canning, curing, freezing, pickling, salting, bottling, preserving or otherwise processing any fruits or vegetables, seafood, meat, poultry or rabbit product, when the purpose of this processing is the preservation of the product and includes all operations.

Wage Order 4 Professional, Technical, Clerical, Mechanical and Similar Occupations: “Professional, technical, clerical, mechanical and similar occupations” includes professional, semi-professional, managerial, supervisory, laboratory, research, technical, statisticians, clerical, office work and mechanical operations. These occupations include:

Accountants, agents, appraisers, artists, attendants and audiovisual technicians
Bookkeepers, bundlers and billposters
Canvassers, carriers, cashiers, checkers, clerks, collectors, communications and sound technicians, compilers, copy holders, copy readers, copy writers and computer programmers or operators
Demonstrators, display representatives, dispatchers, distributors, doorkeepers and drafters
Elevator operators, estimators and editors
Graphic arts and technicians, guards and guides
Hosts
Inspectors, installers, instructors, interviewers and investigators
Librarians and laboratory employees
Machine operators, mechanics, mailers, messengers, medical and dental technicians and technologists and models
Nurses
Packagers, photographers, porters and cleaners, proof readers, process servers and printers
Salespeople, sales agents, secretaries, sign erectors, sign painters, social workers, solicitors and stenographers
Teachers, telephone, radio, telephone-telegraph and call-out operators
Tellers
Ticket agents
Tracers
Typists
Vehicle operators
X-ray technicians and their assistants
Other related occupations listed as professional, semi-professional, technical, clerical, technical and kindred occupations

Wage Order 5 Public Housekeeping Industry: “Public housekeeping industry” means any industry, business or establishment that provides meals, housing or maintenance services whether operated as a primary business or when incidental to other operations in an establishment not covered by an industry order of the commission, and includes:

Restaurants, night clubs, taverns, bars, cocktail lounges, lunch counters, cafeterias, boarding houses, clubs and all similar establishments where food in either solid or liquid form is prepared and served to be consumed on the premises
Catering, banquet, box lunch services and similar establishments that prepare food for consumption on or off the premises
Hotels, motels, apartment houses, rooming houses, camps, clubs, trailer parks, office or loft buildings and similar establishments offering rental of living, business or commercial quarters
Hospitals, sanitariums, rest homes, child nurseries, child care institutions, homes for the aged and similar establishments offering board or lodging in addition to medical, surgical, nursing, convalescent, aged or child care services
Private schools, colleges or universities and similar establishments that provide board or lodging in addition to educational facilities
Establishments contracting for development, maintenance or cleaning of grounds, maintenance or cleaning of facilities and/or quarters of commercial units and living units
Establishments providing veterinary or other animal care services

Wage Order 6 Laundry, Linen Supply, Dry Cleaning and Dyeing Industry: “Laundry, linen supply, dry cleaning and dyeing industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of washing, ironing, cleaning, refreshing, restoring, pressing, dyeing, storing, fumigating, moth-proofing, waterproofing or any other associated processes, on articles or fabrics of any kind, including clothing, hats, draperies, rugs, curtains, linens, household furnishings, textiles, furs or leather goods; and includes self-service laundries, self-service dry cleaning establishments and similar types of commercial establishments; and the collection, distribution, storage, sale or resale at retail or wholesale of the foregoing services.

Wage Order 7 Mercantile Industry: “Mercantile industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of purchasing, selling or distributing goods or commodities at wholesale or retail, or for the purpose of renting goods or commodities.

Wage Order 8 Industries Handling Products After Harvest: “Industries handling products after harvest” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of grading, sorting, cleaning, drying, cooling, icing, packing, dehydrating, cracking, shelling, candling, separating, slaughtering, picking, plucking, shucking, pasteurizing, fermenting, ripening, molding or otherwise preparing any agricultural, horticultural, egg, poultry, meat, seafood, rabbit or dairy product for distribution and includes all the associated operations.

Wage Order 9 Transportation Industry: “Transportation industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of conveying people or property from one place to another, whether by rail, highway, air or water, and all associated operations and services; and also includes storing or warehousing of goods or property and the repairing, parking, rental, maintenance or cleaning of vehicles.

Wage Order 10 Amusement and Recreation Industry: “Amusement and recreation industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of furnishing entertainment or recreation to the public, including amusement parks, athletic fields, theaters, dance halls, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, skating rinks, riding academies, race tracks, swimming pools, gymnasiums, golf courses, tennis courts, carnivals and wired music studios.

Wage Order 11 Broadcasting Industry: “Broadcasting industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of broadcasting or taping and broadcasting programs through the medium of radio or television.

Wage Order 12 Motion Picture Industry: “Motion picture industry” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of motion picture or television film production, or primarily allied with theatrical or television motion picture productions, including motion pictures for entertainment, commercial, religious or educational purposes, whether made by film, tape or otherwise.

Wage Order 13 Industries Preparing Agricultural Products for Market, on the Farm: “Industries preparing agricultural products for market, on the farm” means any operation performed in a permanently fixed structure or establishment on the farm or on a moving packing plant on the farm for the purpose of preparing agricultural, horticultural, egg, poultry, meat, seafood, rabbit or dairy products for market when these operations are done on the premises owned or operated by the same employer who produced the products referred to herein, and includes all operations incidental thereto.

Wage Order 14 Agricultural Occupations: Wage Order 14 covers agricultural occupations related to the maintenance of soil, buildings and machinery that constitute the basic farm facilities and to the cultivation and handling of farm commodities up through harvest, including field packing and transportation to the place of first processing or distribution. Employees in these occupations can work for the grower, for a farm labor contractor or for an organization providing agricultural services. “Agricultural occupations” mean any of the following described occupations:

Preparation, care and treatment of farm land, pipeline or ditches, including leveling for agricultural purposes, plowing, discing and fertilizing soil
Sowing and planting any agricultural or horticultural commodity
Care of any agricultural or horticultural commodity. “Care” includes cultivation, irrigation, weed control, thinning, heating, pruning or tying, fumigating, spraying and dusting.
Harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including picking, cutting, threshing, mowing, knocking off, field chopping, bunching, baling, balling, field packing and placing in field containers or in the vehicle in which the commodity will be hauled and transportation on the farm or to the place of first processing or distribution
Assembly and storage of any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including loading, road siding, banking, stacking, binding and piling
Raising, feeding and managing livestock, furbearing animals, poultry, fish, mollusks and insects, including herding, housing, hatching, milking, shearing, handling eggs and extracting honey
The harvesting of fish, as defined by Section 45 of the Fish and Game Code, for commercial sale
Conserving, improving or maintaining the farm and its tools and equipment
Farm Employees and Other Agricultural Occupations

Wage Order 14 covers agricultural occupations related to the maintenance of soil, buildings and machinery that constitute the basic farm facilities and to the cultivation and handling of farm commodities up through harvest, including field packing and transportation to the place of first processing or distribution. Employees in these occupations may work for the grower, for a farm labor contractor or for a company providing agricultural services.

Wage Order 14 does not cover all farm employees. If the grower has a packing or processing operation under Wage Order 8 or Wage Order 13, which are industry orders that cover handling operations after harvest, all of the support personnel on the farm and the packing house workers would fall under the industry order. These include clerical employees and drivers, for example. If there is not a Wage Order 8 or Wage Order 13 operation, the white collar workers would usually fall under Wage Order 4, but there are other possibilities.

Wage Order 15 Household Occupations: Wage Order 15 covers employees who work for private households in various kinds of occupations. “Household occupations” means all services related to the care of people or maintenance of a private household or its premises by an employee of a private householder. Said occupations shall include the following:

Butlers
Chauffeurs, companions and cooks
Day workers
Gardeners, graduate nurses and grooms
House cleaners
Housekeepers
Maids
Practical nurses
Tutors
Valets

Wage Order 16 On-Site Construction, Drilling, Logging and Mining Industries: “On-site construction, drilling, logging and mining industries” includes all people employed in the on-site occupations of construction, including work involving alteration, demolition, building, excavating, renovation, remodeling, maintenance, improvement, repair work and work for which a contractor’s license is required by the California Business and Professions Code Division 3, Chapter 9, sections 7025 et seq.; drilling, including all work required to drill, establish, repair and rework wells for the exploration or extraction of oil, gas or water resources; logging work for which a timber operator’s license is required pursuant to California Public Resources Code sections 4571 through 4586; and mining (not covered by Labor Code section 750 et seq.), including all work required to mine and/or establish pits, quarries and surface or underground mines for the purposes of exploration or extraction of nonmetallic minerals and ores, coal and building materials such as stone and gravel, whether paid on a time, piece-rate, commission or other basis. These on-site employees are entitled to daily and/or weekly overtime.

Wage Order 17 Miscellaneous Employees: “Miscellaneous employees” means any industry or occupation not previously covered by, and all employees not specifically exempted in, the IWC’s Wage Orders in effect in 1997 or otherwise exempted by law.