Research shows that workers with annual salaries between $80,000 to $99,999 use paid family leave benefits at a rate four times higher than workers earning less than $20,000. So unsurprisingly, few low-wage workers in California take paid family leave, even though they pay into the fund that supports it.
That’s simply not enough for a family to survive. A worker whose normal annual salary is $27,000 gets just $365 a week for 70% of their wages while on leave. Getting by on a partial paycheck tends to be easier for people who earn more - and virtually impossible for those who earn the least. The payments make up 70% of a normal paycheck for workers who make up to about $27,000 a year, and 60% for everyone else (with those making more than about $133,000 capped at 60% of that amount). Workers pay about 1% of their paychecks into a fund that the state taps to give people a portion of their salary when they take up to eight weeks of leave to care for a sick family member or a new baby. Imagine setting aside money from each paycheck so that if you ever needed to take time off work to care for a sick family member or new baby, you’d have some earnings saved up on which to get by.įor the vast majority of workers in California, this isn’t a hypothetical situation - it’s exactly how the state’s paid family leave system functions.
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