California State Poverty Level 2024. Congratulations california, you’ve done it again — retained your title of having the highest level of poverty of any state. 23 rows poverty wage estimates come from the department of health and human services’ poverty guidelines for 2024 and have been converted from an annual value to an hourly wage for ease of comparison.

On this page you can calculate federal poverty levels two ways. California has the highest rate of poverty at 13.2% of any state in the u.s.