SEATTLE – Councilmember Kshama Sawant (District 3, Central Seattle), chair of the Council’s Sustainability and Renters Rights Committee, celebrated the announcement this week that the Seattle minimum wage will be rising on Jan. 1 to $17.27/hour for most workers.
“Tens of thousands of Seattle workers, disproportionately women and people of color, will be getting another raise in January, thanks to our fighting grassroots 15 Now movement and union members eight years ago that demanded and won a $15 minimum wage with annual inflation increases,” Sawant said.
Seattle’s minimum wage rises annually based on the $15 minimum wage law that City Council passed in early 2014 following a historic grassroots struggle. Seattle was the first major city in the US to adopt a $15 minimum wage, coming right after the $15/hour initiative victory by SeaTac Airport workers in 2013.
Under the law, Seattle wages rise every year according to inflation. The new minimum wage will be $2.78/hour higher than the 2022 Washington state minimum wage of $14.49/hour, and it is $10.02/hour higher than the federal minimum wage, which has stagnated at $7.25/hour for the last 12 years.
“Let’s remember that back in January 2014, when we first launched our 15 Now campaign, the political...
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