The Seattle minimum wage in 2015 is $10/hr minimum wage AND $11/hr minimum compensation if you work for a smaller company or chain with less than 500 employees in total, across the country.
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The 2015 Seattle minimum wage is $11/hr if you work for a company or chain with more than 500 employees nationally. The wages are going up again on January 1, 2016 and every year after that. The first workers get to $15/hour in 2017, and everyone gets there in the next few years afterwards.
Read MoreFour months under the new Seattle minimum wage = $1000!
The new Seattle minimum wage has been in effect since April 2015. For a full-time worker working at a company or chain with more than 500 employees nationally, you’ve seen roughly a THOUSAND more bucks in your paycheck.
Read More"I'm fighting for $15...to build my life up."
NIchole works at McDonald's in Olympia. She testified to the Olympia City Council about the need for the city to get a $15 minimum wage.
Read MoreRemember that pizza place that said it was closing because of $15? Everything they said was wrong.
When zPizza said it was closing up shop in Seattle because of minimum wage, Q13, KUOW, and others suggested it was a sign of things to come. But now a new pizza place is moving into the same location and there’s now a shortage of pizza cooks in Seattle. Think these news outlets will follow up on reality?
Read MoreA $200,000 reason to try and buy an election: the only candidate who's out against $15 is in big for colonizing Mars
There are 59 candidates for 11 positions on Seattle City Council & the Port of Seattle. Only one says he opposes the $15 wage — and his other key issue is colonizing Mars. Big business lost the debate… so now they’re trying to buy an election?
Read MoreSeattle voters: check out RunForTheMoney.org
The more you know about who’s spending money to support a candidate, the more you know about what to expect from them. That’s the principle behind a new website from Working Washington — RunForTheMoney.org — which highlights the massive spending by business lobby groups in this year’s City Council primaries.
Read MoreMinimum wage workers need a raise - to $15
Check out the Op-Ed published in The News Tribune by Jesse Griggs, a Tacoma McDonald's worker with Working Washington.
Read More"I would love to be able to change my life."
Jesse Griggs testified to the Tacoma City Council about the need for Tacoma to get a raise to $15.
Read MoreWill Tacoma City Council Propose a Minimum Wage Increase that Nobody Can Get Behind?
Despite overwhelming public support for higher wages, the Tacoma City Council may very well be on the verge of doing the impossible: proposing a minimum wage increase that nobody can get behind. Working Washington will certainly not be supporting the current proposal for a multi-year plan to raise the wage to $12. It simply takes far too long, and offers workers far too little.
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