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San Francisco Deserves A Raise
San Francisco Minimum Wage Coalition
MINIMUM WAGE INDEX
August 6, 2003

MAKING ENDS MEET
National minimum wage: $5.15 per hour ($10,712 per year)
California Minimum wage: $6.75 per hour ($14,040 per year)
National minimum wage adjusted to San Francisco’s cost of living: $9.48 per hour ($19,718 per year)
California inflation adjusted (since 1968) minimum wage: $8.92 per hour ($18,554 per year)
“Self -sufficiency” wage for average family with two working adults in 2002: $12.51 per hour ($26,020 per year)
Proposed San Francisco minimum wage: $8.50 per hour ($17,680 per year)
Monthly income based on year-round, full-time employment at new minimum wage: $1,473
Average monthly rent for an apartment in San Francisco: $1,554

BROAD BENEFITS TO WORKERS
MINIMAL IMPACTS ON BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS
Number of people who will get a raise by increasing the local minimum wage: ~54,000
Number of children whose parents will get a raise by increasing the local minimum wage: 29,850
Average annual income increase through minimum wage increase: $1,946
Percentage of businesses seeing no more than 1% increase in operating costs: 82%
Percentage of businesses seeing no more than 5% increase in operating costs: 95%
Percentage of low-wage workers (earning under $7.50/hr) working in small businesses with fewer than 25 employees: 2.4%
Percentage of low-wage workers in businesses with more than 100 employees: 67%
Percentage of low-wage workers working at non-profit organizations: 7%
Average reduction in turnover in SFO operations, maintenance, and security positions resulting from $10/hr minimum wage: 34%
Change in total number of jobs in restaurant industry in SF Metropolitan Statistical Area (SF, SM, & Marin) between 1999 and 2003: +600
Change in total number of jobs in total SFMSA economy during that same period: -23,600
Average increase in the price of a $1.50 cup of coffee to pass on cost of wage increase: $.02



1) Please e-mail this link to like minded folks who care about the busboys and maids of this world.

2) Link our website to your organization's or your personal page. http://www.sfminimumwage.org

3) If you can spend 6.75 on a burrito or mojito, DONATE to our campaign! Even if you don't live in SF, you can vote with your pocketbook. Lets pioneer bringing national support to local progressive referendums NOW.

4) If your so frickin broke you can't even spare 6.75, come on down to HQ and walk the nabes of SF, spread our literature all over this town, and fight for what's right!