This new rate places San Francisco on par with Oakland for the highest legally mandated pay for non-salaried workers in the nation. And, according to the National Employment Law Project, an estimated 142,000 workers will benefit from the higher wages. There may not be a better time for this increase as San Francisco's economy is booming and the unemployment rate is down to 3 percent.
A story by Ian Tuttle in the National Review had this to say:
"'I’m hearing from a lot of customers, ‘I voted for that, and I didn’t realize it would affect you.’”
So says Brian Hibbs, owner and operator of Comix Experience, an iconic comic-book and graphic-novel shop on San Francisco’s Divisadero Street, of the city’s new minimum-wage law. San Francisco’s Proposition J, which 77 percent of voters approved in November, will raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 by 2018.
As of today, May 1, Hibbs is required by law to pay his employees at Comix Experience, and its sister store, Comix Experience Outpost on Ocean Avenue, $12.25 per hour. That’s just the first of four incremental raises that threaten to put hundreds of such shops out of business.
The San Francisco minimum wage is set to increase to $15 an hour over the next 36 months. For more information on the details of San Francisco's Proposition J, the minimum wage increase, and the impact it will have on city employers - as well as the similar legislation passed for the city of Oakland - please read this recent post:
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