T he days of "fast food" being "cheap food" are long gone, and prices seem to always be increasing. We can blame that ...

New pay floors took effect July 1 in states like Alaska and Oregon and cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Additionally, several California cities, including San Diego, West Hollywood and Los Angeles began offering a higher minimum ...

An hourly increase of 35 cents could be challenging for some small businesses. With 9 out of 10 restaurants being small ...

New York City is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in, a fact that guided many New Yorkers’ votes in Tuesday’s mayoral primary election. Like his fellow candidates, Zohran Mamdani ...

Industry groups warn that a $30 wage rate already approved for hotel employees threatens to trigger an ‘economic tsunami.’ ...

Workers in multiple Bay Area cities will receive a raise come July 1. The statewide minimum wage this year increased to ...

And the push-pull on efforts to abolish or save the tip credit continue in Illinois, Michigan and Washington, D.C.

California Despite a general minimum wage of $15 and a minimum wage for fast food workers of $20, quick service staff in San Jose make an average of $20.83 hourly or $20.67 in San Francisco.

Even with the higher minimum wage, fast food workers like Martinez are earning far less than the $35 per hour that’s the living wage for even a person with no dependents in the South Bay ...