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The University of California, Berkeley, published a study in June 2017 on the impacts of the increases to Seattle's minimum wage called "Seattle's Minimum Wage Experience 2015-16". This paper examines county and city level data collected in the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages from 2009 to 2016.
In 2022, the Seattle City Council enacted a first-of-its-kind ordinance that aimed to help ensure that app-based delivery drivers earn a minimum wage plus tips and compensation for expenses. That ...
In SeaTac, a small suburban community whose economy centers around the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, the minimum wage was increased to $15 per hour in 2014 without any intermediate stages, which resulted in heavy media attention. [77] In 2014, Seattle became the first major city in the US to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
In the current wave of minimum wage legislative action, Seattle, Washington, was the first city to enact on June 2, 2014, a local ordinance to increase the minimum wage for all workers to $15.00 per hour, [55] which phases in over seven years. [56]
On Jan. 1, Seattle raised its minimum wage to $18.69 per hour for most employees. It now has the highest minimum wage in the nation (excluding industry-specific minimum wage rates), eclipsing the...
States’ minimum wage rates are often eclipsed by those in many of their own cities and counties. Take the city of Tukwila, Washington, just south of Seattle. Its minimum wage will hit $20.29 in ...
SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle City Council has approved an ordinance that would raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour, making it the highest in the nation. Here are some questions and answers ...
[25] [26] In 2014, Hanauer was a member of Seattle's Income Inequality Advisory Group which proposed and eventually passed the $15 minimum wage. [27] In 2016, Hanauer was the largest contributor to Washington State Initiative 1433 which supported "incrementally raising the state's minimum wage from $9.47 to $13.50 by 2020 and mandating ...