Highlights
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Impacted Employers: Hotel employers with 60 or more rooms.
Effective Date: Sept. 8, 2025
Summary: The minimum wage for employees working in hotels with 60 or more rooms has increased from $21.01 to $22.50 per hour.
Next Steps: Effective September 8, 2025, hotel employers with 60 or more rooms must pay their employees at least $22.50 per hour.
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The Details
City of Los Angeles Ordinance 188610, which raises the minimum wage to $22.50 for employees working at hotels with 60 or more rooms was originally slated to go into effect on July 1, 2025.
However, business groups launched a referendum campaign to overturn Ordinance 188610 so the implementation of the new pay rate of $22.50 (up from $21.01) was put on hold pending the outcome of the petition effort.
On Sept. 8, 2025, the City Clerk of Los Angeles announced that the petition effort to overturn Ordinance 188610 had failed due to insufficient signatures and that the $22.50 rate of pay was now in effect.