Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Thursday that Los Angeles’ minimum wage will go up from $15 an hour to $16.04 an hour beginning July 1st.
Minimum wage rose dramatically in California and Los Angeles beginning in the mid-2010’s due to rising costs of housing and other costs associated with inflation and higher than national average prices within the state. For California, the SB 3 law passed in 2016 installed a yearly minimum wage increase of $1 an hour. The $10 minimum wage at the start of 2016 grew to $15 an hour for all businesses with 25 employees or more at the beginning of this year, with the final bump, $15 an hour for businesses with 24 or fewer employees, to be instilled next year.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles roughly kept slightly above pace during this time. In 2015, a wage hike ordinance championed by Mayor Garcetti pushed LA’s minimum wage from $9 an hour in 2015 to $15 in 2020. Other cities in California, such as Mountain View and Emeryville, also moved minimum wages in recent years to above $17 an hour, with San Francisco going up to $16.32 an hour. Seattle has the highest minimum wage in the country at $17.27 an hour.
Due to LA’s municipal code stating that wages are to improve annually, along with the ordinance basing all minimum wage jumps on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the LA area, the new wage increase for 2022 was calculated to go up by $1.04 an hour. read more
This corrupt rat should be changed by the leg to a city sidewalk for the rest of his life.
India should be highly insulted this piece of shit is going to be the incoming US ambassador!
How long until there’s a “black minimum wage” that is at least a dollar more?
3..2..
In 2 weeks Gas in Toronto went from $1.38 to $1.58 per Litre.
Last year it was $1.18 per litre.
So, if Cali is anything like Toronto, That $1.04 should do absolutely Fuck All!
What I really want to know is How much “ASSISTANCE” in Nancy Pelosi’s Vineyard Getting from The Bed Pisser in Chief & her own Build back better package even though people tend to Drink More in Bad economic times?
Productivity wont increase one bit.
Thank goodness – that additional four cents will make all the difference.
Garcetti must really love robot burger flippers, because those are what he’s going to see a whole lot more of.
…along with more sidewalk turds (both kinds).
What a generous man!
buying votes
shoplifting, now that it is legal, pays better though
It’s a good thing their stupid minimum wage law wasn’t tied to the cost of living, or they would have to raise it to $30 .
By the way, diesel in Northern California is now $5 a gallon. And 2 breakfast sandwiches and a small coffee is now 12 bucks at McD’s
A government imposed minimum wage is socialism incarnate!
“diesel in Northern California is now $5 a gallon”
I don’t even have a smart ass remark for this. I’m a well known idiot and even I can see this is……like……. bad or something.
12 bucks at McD’s? I’ll have to go look. I haven’t been in the mcdonalds in town for over a year. No, not because covid. Because of all the new people moving here.I used to pull right up to the window to order. Now there’s a line of cars wrapped around mcdonalds.
…..I have more white people problems if you wanna’ stick around.
Burr, there’s a line at the drive-thru because they likely closed the inside dining section.
Here in Vegas many stores have closed because they tried this shit too.
A lot of FF places are near apartments & condos and they used to do a ton of walk-up business with people that don’t have cars.
It’s a perfect storm.
Government with it’s hand up small businesses asses.
Nah, I’m in Arizona. There’s no masks. Everything’s open. It’s just gettin’ crowded….with idiots. Who the fug pays 12 bucks for McD’s? That’s robbery.
But 5 bucks for diesel? Pretty sure big rigs run on diesel. That may be a result of shenanigans, but even for knuckleheads, that’s a big warning sign.
Like a lot of people,I just cut crap out of diet to deal with rising costs. But diesel? Damn son. I can’t hide from that.
I’ve stated this before and I will state it again….. the true minimum wage is zero!
FJB/LGB
The way it’s going FF places will have to raise prices.
Min wage goes up, inflation up, prices up.
Places close…
“The cage goes in the water, you go in the cage, the shark’s in the water…”
Fair-well and adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies…
LBS – I do have some good shark stories while diving …
Burr: don’t worry, I always fuel-up before I have to drive thru CA. I did notice in your ‘hood, diesel was “only” 3.47 last week.
@Irate
That extra 4 cents per hour will quickly add up. After 8 hours of work it’s a whopping 32 cents. After a week it’s an astronomical $1.60, or $6.40 every month. Investing that every month in an account that compounds 5% interest daily will provide the investor $7,882 after 100 years.
So, that extra 4 cents is a really big deal.