The law applies to for-profit companies with 10 or more workers and nonprofit companies with at least 25 workers.
Retailers are exempt.
Living wage laws are spreading to more cities as officials find themselves squeezed between promoting business and helping people who work and still can't afford to take care of themselves and their families because of low pay. This is a quid pro quo. We need to promote quality jobs, strengthen neighborhoods and rebuild a tax base that will fund those efforts downtown. Minimum-wage jobs don't build or rebuild communities. Taxpayers subsidize companies that don't pay workers enough to support themselves and their families, or make medical insurance affordable.