The MCO rate is adjusted on January 1 each year, based on the prior year's change, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metropolitan statistical area. The required for-profit rates under the Minimum Compensation Ordinance for prior years are as follows:
- 2012: $12.06/hour
- 2011: $11.69/hour
- 2010: $11.54/hour
- 2009: $11.54/hour
- 2008: $11.03/hour
- 2007: $10.77/hour
- 2006: $10.77/hour
- 2005: $10.77/hour
- 2004: $10.51/hour
- 2003: $10.25/hour
- 2002: $10.00/hour
- 2001: $9.00/hour
