From the current minimum wage of $17.28 an hour, the increases will be implemented incrementally, starting $25 an hour on Feb. 1 next year. The minimum will increase almost immediately after that, to $26.25 an hour on July 1, 2025. Three more July 1 hikes will culminate in 2028, when the “living wage” hits $30 an hour, less than two weeks before Los Angeles hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics.
The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake.
The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and bloated payrolls that will have to be met. The “wage increases are expected to impact 23,000 workers, or about 40% of airport employees and 60% of hotel workers,” according to the Westside Current.
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$30 minimum wage would be an Olympian error for Los Angeles
Kerry Jackson
From the current minimum wage of $17.28 an hour, the increases will be implemented incrementally, starting $25 an hour on Feb. 1 next year. The minimum will increase almost immediately after that, to $26.25 an hour on July 1, 2025. Three more July 1 hikes will culminate in 2028, when the “living wage” hits $30 an hour, less than two weeks before Los Angeles hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics.
The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake.
The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and bloated payrolls that will have to be met. The “wage increases are expected to impact 23,000 workers, or about 40% of airport employees and 60% of hotel workers,” according to the Westside Current.
Read the entire op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.