West Hollywood
West Hollywood's minimum wage for non-hotel employees is $20.25 an hour from January 1 through December 31, 2026, and no 2027 rate is posted on the city's page. Employers at all businesses must also give full-time employees at least 96 compensated and 80 uncompensated hours a year for sick leave, vacation, or personal necessity, with part-time employees getting a proportional share. California's rate is $16.90, going to $17.40 on January 1, 2027.
In West Hollywood, the hourly rate is half of the payroll rule and time off is the other half. This page covers the wage and its separate hotel schedule, the 96 and 80 hour requirement, the city's Business Tax Certificate, and what it all means for your books. Payroll registration is on bookkeeping for California cleaning businesses.
The City of West Hollywood's minimum wage page lists $20.25 an hour for non-hotel employees from January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026, under Municipal Code Chapter 5.130. No 2027 rate is posted. The page doesn't state an hours threshold or an employer-size tier, and the ordinance text wasn't reviewed for this page. Whether your crews are covered is a question for the city or an employment attorney.
Hotel employees have a separate rate under Chapter 5.127. The hotel schedule on the page ends with $20.22, in effect until June 30, 2026, and no later hotel rate is posted, so that part of the page is out of date. Whether a cleaning company's crews working in a hotel fall under the hotel rate isn't covered here; that's a question for the city or an employment attorney.
Source: City of West Hollywood, Minimum Wage (no page date shown)
Statewide the rate is $16.90 an hour, effective January 1, 2026, and $17.40 from January 1, 2027, as announced by the Department of Industrial Relations on August 13, 2026.
Source: California Department of Industrial Relations, Labor Commissioner, Minimum Wage FAQ
Source: California Department of Industrial Relations, News Release 2026-66 (August 13, 2026)
The same city page says employers at all businesses must provide full-time employees at least 96 compensated hours and 80 uncompensated hours a year for sick leave, vacation, or personal necessity. Part-time employees get hours in increments proportional to what a 40-hour-a-week worker accrues. That's from the city's summary page, not the ordinance text, so how the hours accrue and whether any coverage threshold applies aren't confirmed here.
Source: City of West Hollywood, Minimum Wage (no page date shown)
West Hollywood's Business Tax FAQ says that generally all businesses operating within the city must obtain a Business Tax Certificate and pay an annual Business Tax. A separate Regulatory Business License applies to 34 specific business types. The city names examples but doesn't show whether cleaning or janitorial work is one of the 34; the city's lookup tool or its Neighborhood and Business Safety Division would settle that.
Source: City of West Hollywood, Business Tax: Frequently Asked Questions (no page date shown)
Time off is where West Hollywood payroll records get tested. Each full-time employee carries two balances, 96 paid hours and 80 unpaid, and each part-timer carries a proportional share of both. That's a lot of numbers to hold in your head, and I'd be the first one to lose track if I tried. They belong in the payroll records, by employee, next to wages recorded at what each person was actually paid. More on how I set up payroll for cleaning businesses.
These rules attach to employees. For unemployment insurance, California uses the ABC test, placed at Unemployment Insurance Code section 621(b) by the EDD's DE 231K guide, and my post on 1099 subcontractors vs W-2 employees covers what that means for the books.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep wages, time-off balances, and the Business Tax recorded; who counts as an employee and which West Hollywood rules reach your crews are questions for a CPA or an employment attorney, and tax questions go to your CPA.
Rules checked against the sources above as of October 20, 2026. Rates and rules change; confirm current figures with the agency or your CPA.
About Figure Eight Financial
Figure Eight Financial is Dave Gordon’s bookkeeping practice for residential and commercial cleaning companies. I work with owners in West Hollywood and across the country, and I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
Before bookkeeping I studied computer science at Penn State and spent a career at IBM as an engineer, so I build the books as a system: data comes in once, lands in the right place, and ties back to a statement. I’m a bookkeeper, not a CPA or Enrolled Agent. I keep the books your CPA works from, and the tax decisions stay with your CPA.
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West Hollywood's time-off rule means each employee carries balances, so the payroll records keep them by person, with part-timers at their proportional share. Wages are recorded at what each person was actually paid, and the Business Tax gets its own expense line. Book a short call below and walk me through your West Hollywood crew.
The core service. Transactions recorded and categorized, every account reconciled so the books and the bank agree, and monthly reports that arrive explained, split by residential and commercial and sliceable per contract.
The full picture of how this works for a cleaning companyFor the months where nothing got entered at all. I fill in the missing periods from the ground up, pulling bank feeds, statements, and receipts until every month has a complete set of records.
How catch-up bookkeeping worksFor books that exist but can’t be trusted. I audit what’s there, fix the unreconciled accounts, duplicate transactions, and wrong categories, and tie every balance back to a statement.
How cleanup bookkeeping worksYour crews paid on time, every pay period, with each payroll run recorded in the books so labor shows up against the jobs it belongs to.
How payroll worksRecurring invoices that match your contracts, an aging report you can trust, and follow-up on slow payers handled by a process instead of your evenings. Built for net-60 commercial accounts.
How invoicing and receivables workA file built right for a cleaning company from day one, or rebuilt after the DIY version drifts, and then I teach you to run it. I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor, and this is honestly my favorite part of the job.
How a proper setup worksWe start with a short call about your business and where the books stand. The first conversation doesn’t cost anything.
I take a look at what you’ve got, your QuickBooks file, your spreadsheet, whatever exists.
You get a written proposal with the price, so the decision is yours with the number in hand.
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