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

For California, violation type is willful; penalty maximum is $162,851; penalty minimum is $11,632; federal maximum is $165,514; effective date is January 1, 2025, recorded from its source on 2026-08-15.

- **Jurisdiction:** California
- **Violation type:** willful _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Penalty maximum:** $162,851 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Penalty minimum:** $11,632 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Federal maximum:** $165,514 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Effective date:** January 1, 2025
- **Computation method:** Proposed Penalty multiplied by five; minimum $11,632, maximum $162,851 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statute citation:** Cal. Code Regs. tit. 8, § 336(h) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> the penalty for any willful violation shall not be less than $11,632 and shall not exceed $162,851.

## Source

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

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