Locator: 48680CA.
Approved by Los Angeles City Council, for hotels with more than 60 rooms:
- raising the minimal wage, to be phased in over two years
- from $20 to $30 / hour, plus
- and additional $8.35 for heathcare benefits.
Bottom line: hotel workers, minimum hourly will increase from $20 / hour to $40 hour over the next two years.
The average hotel worker spends 15 minutes in a given room each day.
15 minutes = 1/4th of $20 = $5 / room which will now increase to $10 / room.
Hotel rates in Los Angeles:
- average: $170 / night
- median: $149
- seriously, I doubt if any of extended family members can find a $150-room in Los Angeles.
Disneyland Hotel in southern California, average: $500.
We routinely tip the person who cleans our hotel room $10 / night.
The increase is entirely appropriate. I have no trouble with the new minimum wage. And, in fact, if one has a problem with that, cut your stay in Los Angeles by one full day. You'll save a lot more than $10.
Talk about folks making a mountain out of a mole hill.
And my hunch: hotels will raise their rates a lot more than necessary to cover the increase in the minimum wage. Hotel CEOs will whine all day about this increase in the minimum wage and will make more money than ever. It will have no effect on shareholders.
The real travesty here is how little hotel service workers have been paid over the years, and how much money Paris Hilton is/was making off her inheritance (great-grandfather was Conrad Hilton).
