After postponing discussion and asking for more community engagement, Fort Collins City Council indicated support for implementing a local minimum wage in 2024 at a work session Tuesday night.
If council implemented a local minimum wage, state law requires it go into effect on Jan. 1 the following year.
Currently, the city follows the state’s minimum wage, which is $13.65 per hour and $10.63 per hour for tipped workers. In Fort Collins, a living wage for a single adult working full-time is $18.92 and a living wage for a full-time, dual-income family with a child is $21.85 per adult, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
At the work session, council was given two different options for what the scale could look like. Each had differing speeds at which they would get to the maximum amount, and different maximum amounts. The pay scales introduced by staff were the same as presented in November:
A third scenario sent by a citizen and received by council Tuesday afternoon was also thrown in the mix and ended up receiving the most support among council members.
That option — which would get the minimum wage to $17.29 by 2026 — was “halfway between options one and two,” according to Colorado State University postdoctoral researcher Emily Gallichote, the person who sent council the email.
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