Seattle’s minimum wage is NOT $15 per hour.
It is $11 per hour for large employers, and $10 for smaller employers who provide health insurance and other benefits.
The $15 wage will phase in over the next 4 years for large employers, and over the next 7 years for small employers.
The current minimum wage in Washington state is $9.47.
In Seattle, before the increase to $11 last month, almost no one in the city was working for less than $10 per hour.
Amazing-—The Seattle phase-in isn’t even close to complete & the number of restaurants closing down is accelerating.
By the time the full amount is reached, there will be no restaurants the average person can afford.
What happened when gasoline was $5 a gallon? Where I live, there were neighbors who called each other every time they had to make a trip for something & we had 2 or 3 persons in every car.
Even wait staff?