The report also estimated that there are about 5,000 fewer low-wage jobs in the city than there would have been without the law. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray defended the minimum wage law, saying that ...

A Taco Bell in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle shut down a couple hours early in the spring of 2013. All three employees and one off-shift worker walked off the job to protest low wages and ...

She and her co-workers had seen posters left by the city’s Office of Labor Standards ... She knows that if you’re trying to live in Seattle, the minimum wage is not a livable wage.

Where Minimum Wage Is Highest in U.S. With the new measure in place, Seattle is now the major city with the highest minimum wage in the country, at $20.76 per hour. However, it is not the highest ...

Things seem to be going pretty well since Seattle bumped the hourly ... according to a group of economists whom the city commissioned to study the minimum wage and who presented their initial ...

At least five more restaurants in Seattle are closing their doors just days after the city council’s new minimum wage law mandating an hourly pay of $20.76 an hour went into effect — with the ...

A new law designed to raise the minimum wage for workers in Seattle is also costing workers in the city both jobs and money, states a study by a University of Washington team. The law, which took ...

Seattle adopted the Minimum Wage Ordinance in June 2014, amending the city's municipal code to implement yearly increases from January 1, 2016, through January 1, 2025. The law distinguished ...

Seattle’s minimum wage rose on Jan. 1 from $19.97 per hour to $20.76, as stated in an ordinance from the City of Seattle. The new hourly wage is $4 higher than the state of Washington’s new ...

SEATTLE — Three days into his new job as Seattle’s mayor, Ed Murray announced Friday he’ll sign an executive order moving toward paying all city employees at least $15 an hour. The executive ...

Washington considers itself a leader on mandated wage rates. Seattle was the first large city in the country to adopt a $15 minimum wage. Several years later, voters passed a ballot measure ...