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Posted on 06/05/2025 5:11:19 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago workers making minimum wage are set to get a raise starting next month.
Starting July 1, the city's minimum wage will be $16.60 and the minimum wage for subsidized youth employment programs, the minimum wage will be $16.50.
Under the One Fair Wage Ordinance, the wages of tipped workers such as restaurant servers, bartenders, bussers and runners who earn a subminimum wage of $12.62 per hour will increase by eight percent per year until it reaches parity with Chicago's standard hourly minimum wage on July 1, 2028.
Other regulations for paid leave, paid sick time and the Fair Workweek are also set to take effect on July 1.
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Note to self. Don’t leave tips in Chicago
Of course this increase gets passed on to the customer which will then cause people to eat out as much thereby hurting the businesses and some may even go out of business because they can’t afford it.....nice little vicious circle they’ve got going there.
Why not $50/hr?
Part of the problem is that the indoctrination centers, (schools), don’t teach much that’s useful, especially not anything to do with money/finance. The Chicago electorate will cheer this, until they find that a lot of businesses closed due to the inability to pay for labor and keep the doors open.
The response from the electorate will be to clamor for the city to bring in new businesses, or “force” the existing businesses to stay open. The voters will want this because they have absolutely no idea how the government and economy work.
Didn’t Cali try something similar....with the expected, failed results?
My first job as engineer in a large manufacturing outfit in Chicago paid $2.50 per hour in Feb 1962. It was enough to live well. Devaluation of the dollar is akin to a Greek tragedy novel.
> Note to self. Don’t leave tips in Chicago<
Tip, but tip to reach parity by July 2028.
2026 10%
2027 5%
2028 0%
As a retired puke, I could take advantage of this. Get a job and call in sick on day one. Go get another job and call in sick on day one. Wash, rinse, repeat.
EC
How many businesses will relocate to just outside of the city borders?
Chicago desperately wants to be Detroit.
“””””Of course this increase gets passed on to the customer which will then cause people to eat out as much thereby hurting the businesses and some may even go out of business because they can’t afford it”””””
If a person buys a $50.00 meal at the restaurant and throws in an additional $12.50 to generously pay the owner’s labor costs, for a total of $62.50, then what will that $50.00 meal cost if “tipping” disappears?
If the waiter is paid a wage how will that one hour wage cost be split among the diners in that room, will they still be individually paying about an additional 25% over the current actual cost of their meal or will it amount to more like 50 cents or a dollar per table?
Of course, they will raise the tax on everyone else in the state to pay for it. Then the legislatures will give themselves another $7000 pay increase. So I don’t affect them.
Deep State doesn’t care.
This is likely about goosing union wages which are tied to the minimum wage.
Cuz thanks to Janus v AFSCME, there’s a lot less money rolling in from union dues I’ll bet...
Chicago didn’t learn anything after seeing Los Angles dumb ideas fail many busisnesses had to down size sales stil in limbo mode.
Being LA now hotel workers may get $30.00 an hour.
Some of that cheap labor the liberals keep talking about in action.
The result — more unemployed illegal migrants and low-skill blacks.
Great! Everybody should have their foid prices jump to completely unaffordable!
LA is trying to bump up hourly minimum wages for ‘those in the hospitality & Travel businesses’....the OLYMPICS are coming there.
And the $30.00 an hour won’t go away after the OLYMPICS it’s just a front for the pay plan unacceptable idea.
Why not say a hamburger and fries will cost $850?
Businesses will move or close (except the plywood biz, whose product is needed to board up windows.)
Many, many years ago, my former brother-in-law worked in Chicago. After finishing his meal at an average priced restaurant, he left a $5 tip. As he left the restaurant, he was chased down by the waiter, who screamed at him, “How dare you leave such a lousy tip! Don’t you ever come back to this restaurant again!”
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