The wage increases are expected to affect more than 880,000 workers this summer as minimum wage laws take effect in areas ...

Seattle, with its highest-in-the-country minimum wage, 1 may have hit that limit. In January 2016, Seattle’s minimum wage jumped from $11 an hour to $13 for large employers, the second big ...

The city of Seattle’s minimum wage is increasing to $20.76 per hour, beginning Jan. 1, 2025. The Seattle Office of Labor Standards (OLS) announced the increase on Thursday as part of the annual ...

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 ...

The city’s Office of Labor Standards announced the new minimum wages which will go into effect Jan. 1, 2020. For large employers with 501 employees or more, the minimum wage is going up 39 cents ...

Martina Phelps says the Seattle City Council's historic vote Monday to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour could change her life. Phelps, 22, earns $9.47 per hour working for a McDonald's ...

The UW team published its first reportlast July on the impact of the first jump in Seattle’s minimum wage, which went in April 2015 from $9.47 to $10 or $11 an hour, depending on business size ...

When Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant and workers in the Fight for $15 were negotiating an increase in Seattle’s minimum wage back in 2014, opponents of their effort warned — as ...

Reporting from Seattle — This progressive and expensive city struck a blow against rising income inequality Monday when the City Council voted unanimously to raise the minimum wage to $15 an ...

The study to which I’m referring examines the impact of the first stage of the minimum-wage increase in Seattle. In April 2015, the city raised its minimum wage from around $9.50 to $11, on the ...

Seattle’s minimum wage hike, which would jack up wages to $15 an hour by 2017 for companies with more than 500 employees, was passed five years ago by the City Council.