# California — State OSHA plan civil penalty maximums by violation type compared with federal

For California, violation type is failure-to-abate; penalty maximum is $15,000; federal maximum is $16,550; effective date is January 1, 2025; computation method is Daily additional penalty based on initial Gravity-based penalty, adjusted for Size, Good Faith, and History at time of reinspection; may be reduced up to 90% for first 120 days for regulatory/general, up to 50% thereafter, recorded from its source on 2026-08-15.

- **Jurisdiction:** California
- **Violation type:** failure-to-abate _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Penalty maximum:** $15,000 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Federal maximum:** $16,550 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Effective date:** January 1, 2025
- **Computation method:** Daily additional penalty based on initial Gravity-based penalty, adjusted for Size, Good Faith, and History at time of reinspection; may be reduced up to 90% for first 120 days for regulatory/general, up to 50% thereafter _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statute citation:** Cal. Code Regs. tit. 8, § 336(f) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> The daily additional penalty for failure to abate a violation shall not exceed $15,000.

## Source

- https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/336.html

Last verified: 2026-08-15. Review by: 2027-02-11.
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