Local minimum wage earners will see a jump in pay of more than $1 an hour starting on July 1 when the wage increases to $16.11.
The Pasadena City Council adopted a Minimum Wage Ordinance on March 14, 2016. The wage increased on July 1, 2016 to $10.50 and increased by $1.25 every year on July 1 until it reached $15 in 2020.
“Pasadena adopted its own minimum wage ordinance in 2016 with strong support from a variety of community and labor groups, as well as low wage earners and members of the immigrant community,” said Public Information Officer Lisa Derderian. “This most recent increase from $15.00 to $16.11 per hour was based upon the Consumer Price Index as set by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for all urban consumers for the Los Angeles/Long Beach/Riverside consolidated metropolitan statistical area. Future modifications to the Pasadena minimum wage will similarly occur each July 1st and will also be pegged to the consumer price index.”
The CPI measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
Inflation has slammed local businesses and consumers.
The minimum wage is the starting hourly wage an employer can pay an employee for work. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared the minimum wage be a livable wage when the law was passed in 1933.
But the wage is no longer a livable wage that can cover the high cost of rent, which has reached $3,000 in some apartment units in Pasadena. Meanwhile,...
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