Hotel workers in West Hollywood are now making $17.64 an hour, as a law voted on in early November 2021 goes into effect and pays some of the city's workers the highest minimum wage in the United States.
That minimum wage will be adjusted annually for inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index, to keep pace with the cost of living. The first of those adjustments comes July 1, 2022.
It also has provisions for required paid leave time for illness, vacation and personal necessities.
The ordinance, voted into law by the West Hollywood City Council on Nov. 3, was initially proposed as a raise to the minimum wage just for employees in the hotel industry.
Councilmembers then proposed extending the wage hike to all West Hollywood workers.
For now, only hotel employees have a new minimum wage of $17.64. Employees in other industries will receive more gradual pay increases every six months, according to the ordinance.
The goal is to bring their minimum wage up to match the one now in place for hotel workers by July 2023.
Workers in other industries that work at "large businesses," described as businesses with 50 employees or more, now have a minimum wage of $15.50 an hour, while workers at "small businesses," with fewer than 50 employees, now make $15.00 an hour.
On July 1, 2022, those wages for workers in other industries will increase again. Employees of large businesses will make $16.50 an hour, and employees of small businesses will make $16.00 an hour.
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